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Chris Smith
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- Twitter just announced Birdwatch, a community-based feature meant to address the misinformation spreading on social networks.
- Users can sign up for Birdwatch, at which point they’ll be able to annotate tweets spreading misleading news.
- The service will run separately from Twitter initially and won’t impact the visibility of the tweets that are addressed in Birdwatch.
Twitter has officially introduced a program that was in testing for months and which could help fix the toxic internet in the coming years. Called Birdwatch, the new feature will eventually add another layer of security to Twitter, the security of information. Birdwatch is a program that aims to reduce the spread of misinformation online, which is thriving on social media. Twitter is no exception. The company had a busy year in 2020, fighting COVID-19 misinformation that started spreading online in the early days of the pandemic and continued after that. Twitter had to intervene and label as misleading posts that were spreading fake news and conspiracy theory. Later, it found itself policing Donald Trump’s account, especially in the final months of his term, as the former president kept spreading misleading information about the elections. Eventually, Twitter banned Trump.
Birdwatch will now allow users to police tweets and annotate the misleading information accordingly. The new community-based feature aims to reduce the spread of false information with the help of actual Twitter users.
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Twitter wants to fix the toxic internet with Birdwatch originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 07:31:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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