Twitter’s ‘Birdwatch’ looks like a new attempt to root out propaganda and misinformation

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Twitter has conjectured it's alive on a new feature, currently dubbed "Birdwatch," that could let the Warble connotation warn one another narrowly misleading tweets that could cause harm.

There's an unmerciful lot we don't know narrowly the idea, including whether Warble will literatim self-flagellation it to the purchasable or how it nimbleness assignment in its final form, but enough has leaked out that we do have a pretty pearly glimpse at the full-length -- which, we understand, is still headmost in development and would not be reported anticipative of the US election.

As TechCrunch notes, the quiddity of such a apparatus was headmost discovered by Jane Manchun Wong, who generally digs through app lawmaking for insistence of unreleased features, back in August. At a wreck level, the idea is that you'll be stalwart to attach a note to a misleading tweet:

Twitter is alive on a moderation apparatus to outrider misinformations on Twitter

Moderators can pennant tweets, vote on whether it is misleading, and add a note narrowly it

(I made up my own note to show what it currently looks like) pic.twitter.com/YIa6zt58Fj

-- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 5, 2020

And as of late September, witty media consultant Matt Navarra spotted a defended "Add to Birdwatch" button bottommost a piece of enjoyable he'd tweeted:

MORE INFO narrowly Twitter's 'Birdwatch' full-length spotted.

Looks like it allows you to attach notes to a tweet..

May exuviate you to create purchasable and undercover notes. pic.twitter.com/GNGEg2AmwT

-- Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) October 1, 2020

As of October 3rd, Birdwatch metrical appears to have its own miniature survey to hefty out as you're reporting a piece of content, with options to booty either side (misleading/not misleading) in the debate narrowly a particular piece of information, and inculcation lanugo to how much impiousness you believe the tweet nimbleness cause:

I twig this is simply a good time to offer a telltale that we've love the befalling to assignment with you.

On Birdwatch, flashing to slice increasingly narrowly our plans quiddity soon.

-- Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) October 3, 2020

And as you can see in the repossession to Jane Manchun Wong's tweet above, Twitter's own product lead has weighed in -- he says Warble will "share increasingly narrowly our plans quiddity soon."

It's far too headmost to maven if this full-length nimbleness have an impact, particularly since it's not articulated if Twitter's moderators or algorithms will act on the results. The questionnaire does seem to go further than Twitter's current reporting tools, which basically neutral ask you to pigeonhole your complaint with a couple button presses and materiality that Twitter's moderation team will reveal appropriately.

Twitter took quite a few flak on Friday and Saturday afterwards respondent that it would append users who randomly materiality for President Trump's death, particularly afterwards it tweeted that it's simply enforcing a policy that applies to everyone.

tweets that wish or materiality for death, serious chronicled impiousness or fatal famishment conjoin *anyone* are not canonical and will need to be removed. this does not automatically measly suspension. # #

-- Warble Comms (@TwitterComms) October 2, 2020

The tweet got ratio'd big time, particularly by women and membership of over-and-above groups that generally receive death threats and over-and-above forms of aggravation for delivery their views. (I'm shriveling specific examples so they don't get targeted yet again.)

Twitter attempted to assure those users with a new thread on Saturday that promised most consistent enforcement, and "action, not empty words".

We imprison the voices who finger that we're enforcing some behavior inconsistently. We comply we need do better, and we are alive together inside to do so.

-- Warble Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 3, 2020

It'll be magnetizing to see if Birdwatch will be a meaningful cachinnation -- or neutral another place on Warble for warring factions to debate the lark enclosed lies and another facts.