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Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation
nbc ^ | 1-25-21 | Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny

Posted on 01/25/2021 1:41:48 PM PST by dynachrome

Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar to Wikipedia to flag potentially misleading tweets.

The new system allows users to discuss and provide context to tweets they believe are misleading or false. The project, titled Birdwatch, is a standalone section of Twitter that will at first only be available to a small set of users, largely on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority will not be provided to high-profile people or traditional fact-checkers, but users will have to use an account tied to a real phone number and email address.

“Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading or false, and write notes that provide informative context," Twitter Vice President of Product Keith Coleman wrote in a press release. "We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birdwatch; brownshirts; censorship; redguard; stasi; twitter
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To: dynachrome

This could make serious birdwatchers very unhappy, expecting a forum about their interest and finding out it’s something else entirely.


61 posted on 01/25/2021 3:37:03 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: dynachrome

If anyone here is still on Twitler, please, please, please, post one of the nudes of Hunter Biden filming his Twitler with a selfie stick.


62 posted on 01/25/2021 3:38:38 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: McGruff

The eye should be a swastika.


63 posted on 01/25/2021 3:39:21 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: dynachrome
Another outlet for seriously erroneous information.

All the worst the left has to offer in one place? Well.
64 posted on 01/25/2021 3:39:30 PM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: dynachrome

Not if I’m not on Twitter.


65 posted on 01/25/2021 3:41:12 PM PST by xp38
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To: dynachrome

And so it starts. I’m surprised Mike Lindell’s most recent Tweet hasn’t been so flagged (yet). Do I agree with it? Nope. But I sure as heck believe he (Lindell) and others should be able to have a platform to air such grievances.

This is the massive conspiracy that is really in play. Not some “stolen” election, but the use (or really MIS-use) of the events of Jan 6 to “justify” such heavy-handed draconian tactics across the virtual town square. Sure, “we” can retreat to other platforms (for now) like Gab or Rumble, but where does it end?

Do you, anyone reading this post of mine now, believe this effort will stop at Twitter/Facebook? It’s not going to stop there. Parler’s demise is proof of that.


66 posted on 01/25/2021 3:45:38 PM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: dynachrome

Yeah, that worked out so well for wikipedia. In a month, it will be over run with libs shutting down everyone normal.


67 posted on 01/25/2021 3:53:34 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: dynachrome

Get the heck off that fascist website.. I left over 4 years ago.


68 posted on 01/25/2021 3:56:11 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: dynachrome

IBM partnered with Twitter in 2014 data sponge?.


69 posted on 01/25/2021 4:03:51 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: FourtySeven

My Democrat relatives will only get MyPillow gifts from me starting last Christmas.


70 posted on 01/25/2021 4:09:36 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I’m long gone from there myself.


71 posted on 01/25/2021 4:17:38 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

I do not know thise twitter thing of which they speak...


72 posted on 01/25/2021 4:32:55 PM PST by jrestrepo (Now I am an insurgents. Starve the beast (any way possible) )
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To: dynachrome

Birdwatch for Birdbrain...Joe Birdbrain???


73 posted on 01/25/2021 4:41:31 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: dynachrome

LOL WHO CARES!!

YOU ALL GIVE TWITTER TOO MUCH POWER...GET OFF OF TWITTER.

STOP POSTING BS FROM THAT SITE THAT NEVER TURNS OUT TO BE ANYTHING NEWSWORTHY ANYWAY.


74 posted on 01/25/2021 5:45:17 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: dynachrome

Twitter thought police “Birdwatch” - 2021


75 posted on 07/19/2023 11:30:47 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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