X community adds a context note to New York Times post: The New York Times posted on X: "The decision by some Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion. It also could give the symbols mainstream life after the West's decades-long efforts to eliminate them." X added a label to the post that read "Readers added context they thought people might want to know." The added context read, "Ukraine's neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist regiment has been well documented and acknowledged even prior to the Russian invasion, and discarding it as 'Russian propaganda' is disingenuous. Ukraine has a history of neo-Nazi involvement which is well established."
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.