Fig. 5: Effect of community notes on post deletion and suspension/protection.
From: Community-based fact-checking reduces the spread of misleading posts on X (formerly Twitter)
a Shown are the ratios of deleted posts for different values of note helpfulness (circles). b Shown are the ratios of protected/suspended posts for different values of note helpfulness (circles). Note helpfulness scores are centered around the cutoff point of 0.40. Only community notes with note helpfulness scores of 0.40 or above are displayed on the corresponding misleading posts. The note helpfulness scores are rounded to three decimal places. Notes with helpfulness scores of 0.39 are omitted to prevent treatment contamination due to fluctuations between recalculated note helpfulness scores and note helpfulness scores used in production. The error bands represent 99% CIs derived using the bootstrap method for 1000 resamples. The estimations are based on N = 36,136 posts. See Supplementary Note 11 for further details and full estimation results.
