Twitter's new Birdwatch is an attempt to crowd source a fix for fake newsWhat you need to know
Twitter has launched Birdwatch in an attempt to cut down on the amount of misinformation on the social network.
But it's a separate website, not built into Twitter.
Twitter today launched Birdwatch, a new feature of sorts, that allows users to flag and add notes to tweets that they believe help share misinformation.
Essentially a crowdsourced fix for the misinformation problem Twitter has been battling for years, Birdwatch is initially a separate website to Twitter, but the social network says that the idea is to eventually make things like notes related to tweets visible to all.
Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context. We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable. Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, w...
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Twitter's new Birdwatch is an attempt to crowd source a fix for fake news
