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Twitter on Monday unveiled a new community-driven approach to misleading information on its platform, allowing users to add notes to tweets they believe are false in an attempt to add context for other users.
It’s called Birdwatch, and Twitter launched its pilot program Monday. Fox News was given an early look at the program.
On Birdwatch, no account and no tweet is exempt from annotation, meaning users can add context to tweets posted by news outlets, reporters and elected officials.
Birdwatch will allow users to identify information in tweets that they believe are misleading or false, and write notes or notations to those tweets in a way they feel is providing informative context.
Twitter’s Birdwatch fights misinformation with community notes
Twitter is launching what it calls “a community-based approach to misinformation.”
The goal, as explained in a blog post by Twitter’s Vice President of Product Keith Coleman, is to expand beyond the labels that the company already applies to controversial or potentially misleading tweets, which he suggested are limited to “circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention.”
Coleman wrote that the Birdwatch approach will “broaden the range of voices that are part of tackling this problem.” That brings more perspectives to these issues and goes beyond the simple question of, “Is this tweet true or not?” It may also take some of the heat off Twitter for individual content moderation decisions.
Twitter Inc said on Monday it launched a pilot program that has users flag tweets that they believe are misleading and write notes to provide context. The project, called Birdwatch, is initially offered in the United States, the social media firm said in a blog post. Twitter and other social media companies have been under pressure to combat misinformation on their platforms. Twitter last year started adding labels and warnings about misinformation on the site, including about the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. election. Birdwatch is on a separate section of Twitter, and only pilot participants, who apply to the program, will write posts identifying and rebutting misinformation. Their notes will initially not be visible on Twitter for users outside of the pilot group but will be visible on the Birdwatch site.
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