From Twitter to X: demotion, community notes and the apparent shift from adjudication to consensus-building

Although content moderation has not disappeared under Muskʼs tenure, it remains, in X, unclear and inconsistent. This project analyses changes in content moderation from Twitter to X by focusing on three key areas: 1) policy changes before and after the acquisition; 2) the enforcement of these policies, particularly demotion, removal and community notes; and 3) the role of new moderation methods such as community notes in shaping discourse around polarizing issues in European public debate. In describing these results, this study aims to shed more light on the potentials and limitations of changes from top-down approaches to content moderation towards more agnostic but consensus-driven methods.