Benny Johnson
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6152

X community adds a context note to Benny Johnson post: Benny Johnson posted on X: "BREAKING: The car explosion at the border between U.S. and Canada was an 'attempted terrorist attack' and there were 'a lot of explosives' in the vehicle." Johnson included a video clip from Fox News about the incident. X added a label to the post that read "Readers added context they thought people might want to know." The added context read, "'There is no sign of terrorist activity with respect to this crash,' New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a press conference this evening. nypost.com/2023/11/22/new…"

The label is part of X’s Community Notes system. X users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to posts. X owner Elon Musk recently shared that any post with a Community Note added to it will be demonetized. The Community Notes account on X also posted to explain that notices will now be pushed to users that previously engaged with a post about any Community Notes added to it after the engagement.

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