Elon Musk announced that X will begin sending direct messages to users who interact with posts that receive a Community Note. The update aims to enhance awareness of crowd-sourced corrections, although Musk did not specify a release date. Currently, users receive notifications in the X app or on the web when they like, repost, or reply to posts that have been corrected by a Community Note, but these notifications are only sent after the note is deemed helpful and has been viewable for 24 hours.
We will be releasing a new @CommunityNotes feature that sends you an 𝕏 Chat message if a post you interacted with is corrected
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2026
Authors of posts that receive Community Notes are notified once a note has been live for at least six hours. The new direct messaging approach may address concerns that notifications are frequently overlooked, potentially increasing the likelihood that users recognize misleading information.
X integrated Community Notes as its main mechanism to combat misinformation in 2022, following the feature’s initial introduction as Birdwatch two years earlier. A study published in May 2026 in Nature Communications examined over 237,000 “cascades” involving community-noted posts. Researchers noted that while community notes are effective in curbing the spread of misleading posts, they often fail to intervene in the critical early stages when misinformation goes viral.
The concept of Community Notes has gained traction across multiple platforms. In 2025, Meta ceased its US fact-checking system and adopted community notes in a significant moderation overhaul. Additionally, X has changed its correction sourcing approach, allowing contributors to request AI-generated notes rather than creating them manually.
