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[^2]\n\nResearchers presented ContraNote, a large-scale real-world dataset curated from X's Community Notes system to support conflict verification tasks. [^3]\n\nThe study defines ragebait as online content intentionally designed to provoke anger or outrage to increase attention and engagement. [^4]\n\nBlanche said in a statement on X that 'sophisticated cyber criminals' attempted the attack, but the platform was able to disrupt it. [^5]\n\nThe cyberattack on X comes days after the US Justice Department announced an operation targeting QTFY, a Chinese cyberespionage platform. [^6]\n\nThe US Justice Department said the US Senate, Federal Reserve, NASA, and other organizations were among those targeted by the QTFY cyberespionage platform. [^7]\n\nSocial media users have accused the couple in the video of testing different flavors of ice cream, though the footage does not clearly show if this occurred. [^8]\n\nThe couple was observed testing the ice cream discreetly without realizing they were being recorded by other people in the location. [^9]\n\nThe ContraNote dataset includes 33,686 posts for evaluating evidence-level conflict resolution and 54,474 instances for evaluating aggregation-level prioritization. [^10]\n\nThe CoVer framework achieves 88.5% accuracy and 88.5% macro F1 on the Prioritization task within the ContraNote dataset. [^11]\n\nUsers on X, formerly Twitter, have engaged in a heated discussion regarding the incident, with some condemning the act as bad taste and others criticizing the lack of proof. 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