Posted on 01/26/2021 7:49:16 AM PST by conservative98
Social media giant Twitter has announced a new feature called “Birdwatch” which aims to encourage users to police and flag each other’s tweets if they believe they spread misinformation. The company claims it wants to “broaden the range of voices” fighting against misinformation, but the feature has the potential to devolve into flagging wars between different factions of users.
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced a new feature on its site called “Birdwatch,” which allows users to add notes with “helpful context” to tweets that they believe are misleading. To participate, users must have certain information on file with Twitter such as their phone number, ostensibly to prove the account belongs to a real person.
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In this first phase of the pilot, notes will only be visible on a separate Birdwatch site. On this site, pilot participants can also rate the helpfulness of notes added by other contributors. These notes are being intentionally kept separate from Twitter for now, while we build Birdwatch and gain confidence that it produces context people find helpful and appropriate. Additionally, notes will not have an effect on the way people see Tweets or our system recommendations.
Twitter stated that it has conducted “more than 100 qualitative interviews with individuals across the political spectrum who use Twitter,” and has received “broad general support” for the Birdwatch program.
The company stated that all data contributed to Birdwatch will be available to download and that it will update a public “Birdwatch Guide” that users can review. Twitter also stated that it’s embedding a member of the University of Chicago’s Center for RISC on the Birdwatch team.
The blog post ends stating:
We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying
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You couldn’t pay me to go on Twitter now.
What’s Twitter?
Mass informing on friends, family, neighbors. Where has / is this being done. Hmmmmmm
Twiddle twadder and fecesbook are banned in this household.
Adolf Hitler did this exact same thing, I guess Twitter is the New Brownshirt Brigade
Trump should have had his minions build an alternative to Tweater early in his term.
Not good enough. Still not going to join twitter just to flag the militant Communists on it.
They spread misinformation.
Most of the media will reported.
the Hitler Youth encouraged its members to spy on their parents, neighbors, and friends. I’m sure that Stalin also encouraged this sort of activity.
The only things on twitter now are bots (and lots of them), liberals, and trolls.
dropped my acct last week..had about 3k followers.
no FB and cannot seem to get registered on gab.
He is the unibomber
Isn’t this one of the tools used by the National Socialists of the German Reich, the informer spying on family members and acquaintances to tattle on them to the authorities?
Pretty effective, too, as it found a lot of “plotters” in the general public, and effectively squelched their activities before they offered much real threat to the command-and-control regime.
Sometimes the “squelch” was a kidnapping, followed by a secret imprisonment or a bullet to the back of the head.
Whatever happened to Seth Rich?
Ditto. I’m done with them forever. Deleted my account a few weeks back and never going back. There are way too negatives for me in terms of their (1) outrageous leftist propaganda and double standards; (2) de-platforming President Trump and other conservatives; and (3) invasive advertising methods, The platform succeeded as a means of being kept up-to-date to the second on news of your favorite topics. But is that truly a benefit? Or is it the addictive hook that keeps people on their nefarious platform.
Anyone stupid enough to be on twitter deserves what they get.
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