Twitter will now “falsify” and “cheat” tweets as part of the “crisis disinformation” policy.
Bryan Babb on May 19, 2022
Twitter announced Thursday that the company would implement a new policy for its users that would aim to ensure that widespread “misinformation” is not amplified in site crises.
Tweets classified as disinformation in crisis will be blocked with a warning as part of the new “Disinformation Policy in case of crisis,” the blog post says. Twitter added that the policy would prioritize tweets with the most exposure or from “high-profile accounts. “
Several credible resources will check whether a claim includes “misleading” information, Twitter wrote in the post. These resources will come with “conflict monitoring groups, humanitarian organizations, open source researchers, journalists, etc. ,” he said.
Twitter declined to respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request regarding the express identities of the organizations that will determine the claims.
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“To lessen the potential harm, as soon as we have evidence that a claim could be misleading, we will not magnify or present the content covered by this policy on Twitter, adding the timeline, studies and home exploration,” Twitter said. in the 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, official audited government accounts. “
Tweets can only get a warning if they involve false reports that “distort the conditions” of the evolution of territorial conflicts and “false accusations” related to the use of force and violations of sovereign territory, according to the blog.
In addition, tweets containing “manifestly false” accusations of war crimes or erroneous data about the reaction of the foreign community may also be the subject of a warning, the blog reads.
Fact-checks, comments and anecdotes are exempt from the policy, according to the blog post.
The policy first evolved to deal with crises similar to foreign armed conflicts following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the blog reads. However, Twitter said the company was about to expand the policy to “include more crisis bureaucracy. “
The policy is presented as an effort to “mitigate the damage, while preserving speech and recordings of critical global events,” Twitter said in the post.
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