Ron DeSantis
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6556

X community adds a context note to Ron DeSantis post: The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Florida Governor and Republican candidate for president Ron DeSantis posted a video in which he announced the suspension of his presidential campaign. The added text on the post read "'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.' - Winston Churchill." X added a label to the post that read "Readers added context they thought people might want to know.” The added context read "The quoted words in this tweet do not appear in this phrasing in any of Winston Churchill's books, articles, speeches and papers, although they have been frequently misattributed to him. They do appear in a Budweiser print ad from 1938." 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. The note was later removed.

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