Heartland Signal
Case #
6508

X community adds a context note to user's post: An X (formerly Twitter) user posted "Announcing his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin, Republican Eric Hovde says he understands the tragedy of children being trafficked through Central America because he owns three homes there." The post included a video of Hovde discussing immigration and saying what the post claimed he said. The X community added a note to the post that read: "Readers added context they thought people might want to know. 'Hovde Homes' are shelters the Hovde Foundation has built around the world to support children - including those who have been trafficked. They are not residential homes as this post suggests. hovdefoundation.org/approach/hovde…" 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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