The Economist
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6369

X community adds a context note to The Economist post: The Economist posted "Turmeric is killing people. Developing countries—especially India—should learn from Bangladesh’s open, pragmatic attempts to prevent this from happening https://econ.st/47T1H8I." The X community added a note to the post that read: "Readers added context they thought people might want to know. Lead chromate has been illegally used as a colourant to inferior turmeric to enhance the colour. The lead is the poison. Not the spice. stanmed.stanford.edu/turmeric-lead-…" 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 shared that any post with a Community Note added to it will be demonetized. The Community Notes account on X also posted that notices will be pushed to users who previously engaged with a post when a Community Note is added to it later.

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