Inside X’s Community Notes, fact-checks on known misinformation are delayed for days

The community fact-checking feature that Elon Musk has touted as a way to fight false and misleading information on X is struggling to keep up with a flood of content related to the Israel-Hamas war.

The system, Community Notes, relies on approved volunteers to suggest notes to be appended to posts. Those posts are then voted on by other volunteers and eventually published after they reach a certain threshold of “helpful” votes from "people with different points of view," according to X. The notes, which appear below X posts, can be as varied as fact-checks and debunkings to additions of context.