Twitter expands “Birdwatch”, its crowdsourced fact check project – News

If you are one of those members of Twitter who gets a message under their tweet that their post has been flagged by other members because it could be of dubious origin, do not be surprised. It’s part of Twitter’s now-expanded crowdsourced fact-checking mission, hitherto limited to the US.

Twitter expands crowdsourced fact check experiment ‘Birdwatch’ – Reuters

March 3 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program by making notes on potentially misleading tweets visible to more people on Twitter, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The social networking site launched the project called Birdwatch last year as a novel experiment that asked Twitter users to identify misleading tweets and write notes to provide information debunking the content, which would then be appended to the original tweet.

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