Elon Musk unveils new deepfake antidote on X, community shows excitement

Tesla CEO and the new owner of the Twitter platform (now renamed X) Elon Musk has shared with the X and crypto communities that there is now a better tool to defeat deepfake scams on this social media giant.

Musk stated this while quoting a tweet from Community Notes – a feature in the X app that provides corrections to posts, often alerting readers to false or misleading information therein or simply providing updates.

The Community Notes has rolled out an update that includes improved image matching. It will help to show Notes on a larger number of X messages (about 30% more) that contain similar or identical images. Elon Musk responded to this update saying, “This should make a big difference in defeating deepfakes (and superficial fakes).”

This tweet from Musk brought out several reactions from the crypto community. Many X users were generally excited about this new rollout and thanked Musk and the Community Notes. An XRP activist @XRPcryptowolf jokingly asked Musk again when XRP payments would be made available on X.

As previously reported by U.Today, an XRPL validator operating under the name Vet has dismissed rumors that XRP payments are being tested on the X platform. Still, the company plans to launch internal payments later this year.

The Dogecoin community hopes that Musk, as a big fan of DOGE, will add this meme cryptocurrency to the payment options, even though no recent statements from Musk have been reported about this. Yet one thing is clear: X is not going to launch its own cryptocurrency “Xcoin”, according to Elon Musk’s tweets.

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Yuri is interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been writing about DLT and crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have the potential to transform the world in many of its aspects in the future. He has written for multiple crypto media outlets. His articles have been cited by crypto influencers such as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.