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Twitter Is Now Fact-Checking Your Tweets – channelnews – ChannelNews
Twitter is rife with fake news, false information, and good ol’ idiotic ignorance, but now it is looking to correct this flood of fakery with Birdwatch, a network…
Twitter is rife with fake news, false information, and good ol’ idiotic ignorance, but now it is looking to correct this flood of fakery with Birdwatch, a network of crowdsourced tweeters, who will add notes to factually incorrect tweets in an effort to provide correct information.
The pilot version of Birdwatch launched in January, and today it is starting to roll out across iOS, Android, and desktop.
We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads,…
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