San Francisco: Twitter on Tuesday announced a new feature to allow users to mark content that can contain incorrect information, the specter only grows during a pandemic.
“We are testing the features for you to report tweets that seem to be misleading – as you can see,” said the social networking from the safety and security accounts.
Starting Tuesday, a button will be seen by several users from the United States, South Korea and Australia to choose “this is misleading” after clicking on the “Tweet report.” The user can then be more specific, marking misleading tweets has the potential to contain wrong information about “health,” “politics” and “others.” “We judge whether this is an effective approach so we start small,” said a company based in San Francisco.
“We may not take action and cannot respond to each report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so we can increase the speed and scale of our broader information work.” Twitter, like Facebook and YouTube, regularly under fire from critics who say it is not enough to fight the wrong distribution of information.
But the platform does not have a neighboring silicone valley resource, and often depends on cheaper experimental techniques than recruiting moderator forces.
Such efforts have increased when Twitter rules the wrong information during the Covid-19 pandemic and during the US presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
For example, Twitter began blocking users in March that had been warned five times about spreading false information about vaccines.
And the network began marking tweets from Trump with banners’ warnings from their content which was misleading for 2020 re-election campaigns, before the president was finally banned from the website to post obstacles and messages that discredit election results.
Moderators are finally responsible for determining which content actually violates the provisions of the use of Twitter, but the network has said that it hopes to eventually use a system that depends on human and automatic analysis to detect suspicious posts.
Concerns around Covid-19 vaccine information had become very rampant so that in July Biden said Facebook and other platforms were responsible for “killing” people in allowing false info around the shot to spread.
He walked back a statement that clarified that false information itself was what could be dangerous or even kill those who believed.