San Francisco: Twitter On Tuesday it announced a new feature to allow users to flag content that may contain misinformation, a crisis that has only developed during the pandemic.
“We are testing a feature for you to report Tweets It sounds confusing – as you see them,” the social network said from its Safety and Security account.
Starting Tuesday, some users in the United States, South Korea and Australia will see a button to select “This is misleading” after clicking “Report Tweet”.
Users can then be more specific, flagging misleading tweets as potentially misinformation about “health,” “politics” and “others.”
“We’re assessing whether this is an effective approach, so we’re starting small,” the San Francisco-based company said.
“We can’t act and respond to every report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so we can improve the speed and scale of our extensive misinformation work.”
twitter, like Facebook And youtube, regularly faces criticism by critics who say it is not enough to fight the spread of misinformation.
But the platform doesn’t have its resources silicon Valley neighbors, and therefore often relies on experimental techniques that are less expensive than recruiting armies of mediators.
Such efforts have intensified as Twitter tightens its misinformation rules during the COVID-19 pandemic and during the US presidential election Donald Trump and that Biden.
For example, Twitter in March began blocking users who have been warned five times about spreading misinformation about vaccines.
And the network began flagging Trump’s tweets with warnings of misleading content during his 2020 re-election campaign, before the then-president eventually posted messages inciting violence and discrediting the election results. was banned from the website.
Moderators are ultimately responsible for determining which content actually violates Twitter’s terms of use, but the network has said it hopes to eventually use a system that detects suspicious posts. Depends on both human and automated analysis for
Concerns about COVID-19 vaccine misinformation have grown so much that in July Biden said Facebook and other platforms were responsible for “murdering” people in allowing false information to be spread around shots.
He retracted the remark, clarifying that false information is the only thing that can harm or even kill those who believe it.
“We are testing a feature for you to report Tweets It sounds confusing – as you see them,” the social network said from its Safety and Security account.
Starting Tuesday, some users in the United States, South Korea and Australia will see a button to select “This is misleading” after clicking “Report Tweet”.
Users can then be more specific, flagging misleading tweets as potentially misinformation about “health,” “politics” and “others.”
“We’re assessing whether this is an effective approach, so we’re starting small,” the San Francisco-based company said.
“We can’t act and respond to every report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so we can improve the speed and scale of our extensive misinformation work.”
twitter, like Facebook And youtube, regularly faces criticism by critics who say it is not enough to fight the spread of misinformation.
But the platform doesn’t have its resources silicon Valley neighbors, and therefore often relies on experimental techniques that are less expensive than recruiting armies of mediators.
Such efforts have intensified as Twitter tightens its misinformation rules during the COVID-19 pandemic and during the US presidential election Donald Trump and that Biden.
For example, Twitter in March began blocking users who have been warned five times about spreading misinformation about vaccines.
And the network began flagging Trump’s tweets with warnings of misleading content during his 2020 re-election campaign, before the then-president eventually posted messages inciting violence and discrediting the election results. was banned from the website.
Moderators are ultimately responsible for determining which content actually violates Twitter’s terms of use, but the network has said it hopes to eventually use a system that detects suspicious posts. Depends on both human and automated analysis for
Concerns about COVID-19 vaccine misinformation have grown so much that in July Biden said Facebook and other platforms were responsible for “murdering” people in allowing false information to be spread around shots.
He retracted the remark, clarifying that false information is the only thing that can harm or even kill those who believe it.
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