Twitter Expands Feature To Flag Misleading Posts

 


Twitter announced it would expand its testing feature to allow users to flag misleading content in countries such as Brazil, Spain and the Philippines.

Twitter previously introduced a trial of the feature in August 2021 in the US, Australia and South Korea. This feature was introduced as part of Twitter's efforts to reduce misinformation on its platform.



Since it was first announced, Twitter says it has received about 3 million reports from users who have used it to flag tweets they believe violate its policies.



The social media giant last year launched another program called Birdwatch, which allows participants to write notes and provide additional context for misleading tweets, even though the notes are kept on a separate website.


First of all, a button was seen by some users from the United States, South Korea and Australia to select 'it is misleading' after clicking 'report tweet'. Users can then be more specific, flagging misleading tweets as potentially containing misinformation about 'health', 'politics' and 'other'.


"We're testing a feature for you to report Tweets that appear to be misleading - as you can see," the social network said in a tweet in August last year.



"We're assessing whether this is an effective approach so we're starting small. We may not take action and be unable to respond to every report in the experiment, but your feedback will help us identify trends so we can increase the speed and scale of our more extensive misinformation work. broad," he added.


Social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube regularly come under fire from critics who say the company is not doing enough to combat the spread of misinformation.

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