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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Why is anyone still tweeting?
Grandkids
Your a moron if you still use Twitter and come here. Yeah, I know I use it to look at posts and talk to my kids. Find other sources.
Non “Karens” need not apply.
Birds**t, not birdwatch.
Conservatives need to get off that crap show. Let it go the way of Fox News.
Get on Gab.
misinformation?
like mostly peaceful riots?
hillary was named after sir edmund hillary?
barack’s parents met because somebody marched at selma?
steel doesn’t burn?
“hotest year on record” claims?
you can’t get whu-flu via human transmission (according to China and the UN/WHO)?
12 years left before disaster?
I think I will continue not using twitter
It is not enough to obey Big Brother
You must love (Big Brother)
Should call it Bird Droppings
Just call it SnitchArmy and be done with it.
It’s amazing how the fools fell for all of that and more
Because “they’re smarter” of course
The communist purge continues and is accelerating...
misinformation = wrongthink, counter-revolutionary, against their agenda, etc. Misinformation will be whatever the left says it is.
Means "to Silence the Truth".
This is important to Fascist regimes because their lies can not stand the light of day, let alone informed opposition.
What ever Twitter was it’s long gone , it got trumped ,LOL
FFFFFFFF Twitter.
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