Twitter tackling misinformation with warning labels
Twitter is reportedly set to tackle misinformation with warning labels. The social media site is planning on incorporating a new tiered warning label system that will flag tweets that don’t contain facts, with harsher labels being attached to messages that are sharing the most dangerous misinformation. According to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter is testing three new labels titled ‘Get the Latest’, ‘Stay Informed’, and ‘Misleading’. How accurate a tweet is determines if Twitter’s systems use one of these three labels, each of which includes a prompt directing users to additional info...