Twitter Launched Birdwatch To Combat Misinformation

Twitter launched a feature called ‘Birdwatch’ to support its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation like Wikipedia and to flag potentially misleading tweets, the pilot program, called Birdwatch, is being tested in the United States

The new system allows users to discuss and provide context to tweets they believe are misleading or false.

The project, titled Birdwatch, is a standalone section launched by Twitter that will at first only be available to a small set of users, largely on a first-come, first-served basis.

Priority will not be given to high-profile people or traditional fact-checkers, but users will have to use an account tied to a real phone number and email address.

Anyone can apply to be a Birdwatcher, and the only requirements are a valid phone number, email, and no recent violations of Twitter’s rules.

Users can sign up on the Birdwatch site to flag tweets that they find misleading, add context via notes and rate the notes written by other contributors based on whether they’re helpful or not.

These notes will only be visible on the Birdwatch site for now, but it seems like the company’s goal is to incorporate them into the main Twitter experience.

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The program is currently a pilot and is only available via a separate website, but eventually, the company wants to expand Birdwatch to the rest of Twitter.

Twitter has long been under pressure to prevent misinformation from spreading on its platform. But it wasn’t until this year that the company took more aggressive action.

Twitter said it expects to have between 1,000 and 100,000 ‘Birdwatchers’ who are being admitted on a rolling basis and who will not be paid.