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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This could make serious birdwatchers very unhappy, expecting a forum about their interest and finding out it’s something else entirely.
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.
The eye should be a swastika.
Not if I’m not on Twitter.
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.
Yeah, that worked out so well for wikipedia. In a month, it will be over run with libs shutting down everyone normal.
Get the heck off that fascist website.. I left over 4 years ago.
IBM partnered with Twitter in 2014 data sponge?.
My Democrat relatives will only get MyPillow gifts from me starting last Christmas.
I’m long gone from there myself.
I do not know thise twitter thing of which they speak...
Birdwatch for Birdbrain...Joe Birdbrain???
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.
Twitter thought police “Birdwatch” - 2021
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