One of the more interesting features of X (the social media platform originally known as Twitter) is the crowdsourced fact-checking system known as Community Notes. A couple of previous articles on this blog have featured analysis of Community Notes data, which is freely available for download from X as of the time of this writing. Today’s post will revisit some of that past analysis, as a few things have changed in the time since. Of particular interest, the proportion of notes where X posts (rather than external news articles) are cited as reliable sources has steadily risen.Community Notes continues to grow in popularityThe Community Notes dataset used in this article was downloaded on July 12th, 2024, and contains data through July 10th, 2024. As of this point in time, 1009625 notes have been created, 90558 of which (9.0%) are currently rated helpful and are visible on the relevant posts. 33587 notes (3.3%) have been rated not helpful, and the remaining 885480 notes (87.7%) have yet to receive enough ratings to determine their status, which has been the fate of the majority of Community Notes since the feature’s inception. The volume of notes written has steadily increased over time, with between 3000 and 4000 new notes being submitted each day thus far in July 2024.it turns out that X is the most cited site in fact checks of X postsOne of the general expectations of the Community Notes feature is that note authors will provide links to sources that back up…More fun with Community Notes data