As a move to curb fake news and misinformation, Twitter has now announced a significant crisis misinformation policy for its platform. The new policy comes as a way to detect misleading tweets, containing false information, allegations, or statements, and provide a warning for them so that they aren’t circulated. Check out the details below to find out how it works.
Twitter’s Head of Safety and Integrity, Yoel Roth, announced the policy via a recent blog post. In the blog post, Twitter described crises as “situations in which there is a widespread threat to life, physical safety, health, or basic subsistence.” So, if a tweet violates the new policy, Twitter will show a warning for that tweet and disable the like, retweet, and share functionality for it.
As per Twitter, some examples of tweets that might come with a crisis misinformation policy warning include tweets containing false coverage or event reporting, false allegations regarding the use of force, weapons, and territorial sovereignty, and false or misleading allegations of war crimes. With this, Twitter aims to prevent mass human conflicts due to mere tweets from influential individuals or organizations, much like what it did when fake news about COVID-19 was on the rise.
