The programme lets regular people flag and notate misleading
tweets. This is separate from Twitter's news verification partnerships with The
Associated Press and Reuters.
Starting Thursday, a small, randomised group of US Twitter
users will begin to see these Birdwatch notes on some tweets, the company said.
They will be able to rate them as helpful — or not.
To contribute fact checks to Birdwatch, anyone in the US can
sign up if they have a verified phone number with a US carrier and no recent
Twitter rule violations. They also have to agree to three rules, Twitter says:
contribute to build understanding, act in good faith and be helpful, even to
those who disagree.
Twitter, along with other social media companies, has been
grappling how best to combat misinformation on its service. Despite tightened
rules and enforcement, falsehoods have continued to spread, now exasperated by
the war in Ukraine and Russia's state-backed propaganda machine.
The company has said it wants both experts and non-experts
to write Birdwatch notes and cited Wikipedia as a site that thrives with
non-expert contributions. The ratings, meanwhile are similar to Reddit's up and
downvotes for comments.
For the notes to be visible on a tweet, it must be rated
helpful by enough people from “different perspectives,” Twitter said, adding
that it determines different perspectives by how people have rated notes in the
past — not by their demographics.
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