India, July 3 -- Misinformation on social platforms continues to evolve, and so do the tools built to fight it. X (formerly Twitter) has recently introduced a new initiative called AI Notewriter, which allows AI-powered bots to contribute to its crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes. The idea is simple: use AI to speed up the process, but keep humans in charge.

This article explores how the system works, what it means for online discourse, and where it might go next.

Community Notes is X's open fact-checking framework that lets users collaboratively add context to misleading posts. Notes only go live if they're rated "helpful" by users across the political and ideological spectrum. This ensures balance and reduces the chanc...