Elon Musk says X will send direct messages when posts it has interacted with are corrected

X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Feedback, will be updated to send direct messages to users alerting them whenever a post they’ve interacted with receives a correction. It was a change, which had not yet happened Announce By Malik X Elon Musk. He did not share a time frame for its launch.

The update attempts to address one of the biggest criticisms of community feedback — that patches arrive too late to matter. A misleading post can accumulate views and reposts while its accuracy is in doubt, and by the time it is corrected, the damage has been done. By proactively notifying users when a post receives a correction, X attempts to expand the reach of the note beyond the original post. This may also allow users who spread false information to plead guilty, if they have been deceived.

X’s community feedback system was first created when the company was still known as Twitter, before Musk acquired it.

The idea was to offer a different way of tackling misinformation on the platform, rather than asking Twitter (now X) to be the central authority for moderation decisions. Alternatively, Community Feedback contributors can suggest corrections and add important details or missing information to posts. Consensus is achieved when the people who rate an observation as useful are those who They usually have different points of viewThe memorandum is published.

There is a similar system Since it was approved By Meta as part of a broader moderation overhaul last year, which the company underwent Eliminate its partnerships with fact-checkers.

Although community feedback makes sense for a company that wants to distance itself from the fact-checking business, it has also proven difficult to scale. A 2025 Feature Study Through Spanish fact-checking site Maldita, I found that 85% of suggested reviews on X remain invisible to users, and only 8.3% are posted and become visible. Separate study Conducted by the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), which surveyed 1.76 million observations posted on

Critics have pointed out that this weakens Community Feedback as a system that displays information when it is needed most. Additionally, they argued that people do not realize when a post they have viewed or boosted receives a correction later, as there is no way to bring this information to their attention.

Musk’s proposal to send alerts to users via X Chats (DMs) would address the latter issue, at least, assuming it goes live. X was asked for comment, but a response was not immediately available.