Continuing efforts to reduce misinformation on Twitter and fake news, now the platform launches the project birdwatch, a platform feature where s can write notices about certain tweets, in order to warn that the information has false or incorrect details. 424a4l
Initially only available in the US, the feature will allow s to warn the platform about posts that are potentially spreading misinformation, and allow authorized verifiers to write visible notes about these posts with the correct facts.
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O Twitter has been in recent years one of the platforms where more Fake News spread, reaching the point that during the political crisis in the USA at the beginning of January of this year the platform banned then-president Donald Trump as a measure to combat disinformation and violence.
O birdwatch will be a more comprehensive proposal, allowing s themselves to have a certain control and awareness of the information disclosed on the platform, providing tools for them to fight disinformation on the Twitter. Initially, the notes made by s to the tweets will only be visible by clicking on a specific button, but the platform's intention is that when the birdwatch is now available worldwide, with the view of multiple s checking the information, they show directly in the post, no need to click any button.
According to Twitter, after checking with a small group with all the variety of opinion that builds the political spectrum of the platform, everyone reacted well to the idea of the birdwatch, mainly due to the fact that the disinformation alert is not given by the Twitter itself, but by the s.
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O birdwatch per hour is only available for a small group of tests in the US, but in program page you can track registration and release information. The site, however, already shows the prerequisites to be able to in the program, which are to have a verified phone number and e-mails in the Twitter, not having violated the site's rules and of use recently, two-factor authentication turned on, and the last one, most likely US specific in this test, having a trusted cellular carrier. We hope that this new tool will be effective in combating disinformation on Twitter.
Source: Twitter
