Twitter Is Testing A Feature That Would Allow Users To Flag Misleading Content

Twitter has announced a new way to allow users to highlight the platform if they come across a tweet that¡¯s promoting misinformation -- something that has been creating quite the chaos during the pandemic.

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With the new feature, which has started rolling out on Tuesday, users reporting a post on Twitter will now see a button to flag it as ¡®misleading¡¯ if they feel so. In the initial days, the feature would be visible to only some users in the US, Australia and South Korea.

The feature will give them other options to flag the misleading tweets in categories such as ¡®health¡¯, ¡®politics¡¯ and ¡®others¡¯.

Twitter said in a statement via its Twitter Safety account, ¡°We're testing a feature for you to report Tweets that seem misleading - as you see them. Starting today, some people in the US, South Korea, and Australia will find the option to flag a Tweet as ¡°It¡¯s misleading¡± after clicking on ¡°Report Tweet.¡±

We're assessing if this is an effective approach so we¡¯re starting small. We may not take action on and cannot respond to each report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so that we can improve the speed and scale of our broader misinformation work.

¡ª Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) August 17, 2021

Twitter added, ¡°We're assessing if this is an effective approach so we're starting small. We may not take action on and cannot respond to each report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so that we can improve the speed and scale of our broader misinformation work.¡±

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Unlike Facebook that has a series of manual content moderators that look for questionable content and flag them, Twitter doesn't have that kind of luxury. Instead, it uses experimental techniques that are less expensive.

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It did something similar in 2019 when the platform released the option to report misleading tweets about voting to help safeguard elections in Europe and India.

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