Twitter Asks Users to Police Misinformation
Social media giant Twitter has launched a new pilot scheme in the United States to tackle the spread of misinformation. Under the new Birdwatch scheme, users are invited to identify information in other people’s tweets they think is misleading and write notes that “provide informative context.” Twitter said it believes that a community-driven approach in which users monitor each other and provide a free fact-checking service will allow more content to be flagged as misinformation. “We apply…
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