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« on: August 22, 2021, 04:05:19 pm »

Twitter testing reporting for COVID-19 misinformation

We're assessing if this is an effective approach so we're starting small.

What you need to know


Twitter is testing a new report feature for misleading tweets.
The feature is available to some users in the U.S., South Korea, and Australia.
It includes a category for labeling COVID-19 misinformation.


Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it was testing a new feature for reporting misleading tweets, including content that contains COVID-19 misinformation.

Twitter announced earlier this week that it was testing the new featuring in the U.S., South Korea, and Australia, where a select number of users will now see a new report option for 'It's misleading', for tweets that do exactly that. The company says that it's assessing "if this is an effective approach" so is "starting small." Twitter also says that it man not take action on all tweets and won't be able to respond to every report in the experiment. Rather, it says that user input will help "identify trends" to improve the...

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