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Twitter has unveiled a new policy of disinformation about the crisis, making permanent the transitory measures announced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that may be opposed to the ideology of Elon Musk, who is about to buy the company.
“Verbal exchange evolves in times of crisis, and the content of powerful stories is maximum to gather perspectives and engagement. To lessen the potential harm, as soon as we have evidence that an allegation could be misleading, we will not expand or present the content covered through this policy on Twitter, adding in the timeline, studies and exploration of the house,” wrote Yoel Roth of Twitter, its lead security and integrity officer, in a blog post.
“In addition, we will prioritize adding warnings to highly visual tweets and tweets from high-level accounts, such as state-affiliated media accounts, audited official accounts. “
Twitter defines a crisis as “situations in which there is a risk to life, physical safety, physical condition or fundamental livelihoods,” a definition it says is in line with the United Nations classification.
If a tweet turns out to be misleading, the Twitter tag will hide it but not remove it from the site. , to maintain this content for accountability purposes, Twitter decided that this tweet should remain available. “
Twitter expects this rule to cover a lot of content, adding false coverage and event reports, misleading claims of use of force, false claims of war crimes or atrocities in the media, and false data on sanctions and humanitarian operations.
The new policy will complement existing Twitter regulations that digitally manipulated the media, false claims about elections and voting, and misinformation about fitness, and add discredited claims about COVID-19 and vaccines.
But it may also clash with the prospects of Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, who agreed to pay $44 billion to get Twitter in an effort to turn it into a haven for “free speech. “
Musk did not address many examples of what this would mean in practice, saying twitter deserves to remove only posts that break the law, which, taken literally, would spare it any action contrary to maximum misinformation, private attacks and harassment.
He also criticized algorithms used through Twitter and other social platforms for individual-specific posts.
The first iteration of this policy came from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the Kremlin propagated alleged false statements, prompting Twitter to moderate official government accounts.
In February of this year, Twitter had limited access to Russia to keep “our service available. “In response, the Russian government blocked Twitter and Facebook in the country.
A month later, Twitter removed a tweet from the Russian embassy suggesting that a hospital attacked by Kremlin forces in the port city of Mariupol had been “non-operational for a long time” and was being used by the Ukrainian armed forces and “the British culture secretary to the radicals condemned it as ‘fake news’.
A senior Ukrainian cybersecurity official, Victor Zhora, praised Twitter’s new filtering policy and told the global network to “find suitable approaches to prevent the spread of false data on social media. “
Emerson Brooking, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Investigation Laboratory and an expert on social media and disinformation, said the standoff in Ukraine shows how easily disinformation can spread online and the need for platforms to respond.
“This is a clash that has taken a stand on the internet and has led to extreme adjustments in generation politics,” he said.
Additional reports via The Associated Press