“We do things like requiring a verified phone number from a trusted carrier just to increase the probability that we're dealing with real humans”
Community Notes team · TED Tech · How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Jay Baxter and Keith Coleman
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require a verified phone number from a trusted carrier for raters
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“I say, hey, unfortunately, I cannot help you with this call because I have no way to verify who you are. If you want to give me a phone number and give me a way to call you back directly so I can verify this number, then I will gladly answer your questions.”
“We can look at random samples of raters, and if they're rating things very differently than self-selected, possibly malicious raters, then that's a very important signal”