San Francisco: Politicians and public figures may soon find it tougher to pass lies as genuine information on Twitter as the platform is considering labelling such tweets with misinformation as “harmfully misleading”, according to a leaked Twitter demo.
The report on Friday added that Twitter confirmed that while the leaked demo revealed one possible way of targeting misinformation, the company did not share any new date for the launch of any new misinformation features.
The “harmfully misleading” tweets would include corrected information from fact-checkers, journalists, and other users who would take part in “Wikipedia”-like “community reports” feature.
“We’re exploring a number of ways to address misinformation and provide more context for tweets on Twitter,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying.
Examples of misinformation included a false tweet about whistleblowers by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and a tweet by an unverified account posting a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Fighting misinformation on Twitter gains immense significance as the platform is widely used by politicians to master public opinion in their favour.
Twitter last month announced a policy to ban tweets that “deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm,” such as deep fakes, the NBC News report said.
-IANS