Twitter Implementation has begun Community Notes To all users around the world, the feature is known as Birdwatch from 2021 under the leadership of the former CEO of the platform, Jack Dorsey, Who else? He was trying to fight misinformation.

Moderators participating in the program can add annotations to tweets “context”, what moreheRegular users can vote if they find the context “useful”.

Until now, there were only people USA Saw the notes, but the news is that the tool is gradually being seen by many users social network in the whole world. Also, Twitter says it will soon add these employees in more regions.

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How the tool works

Community Notes is an information verification system on Twitter. It consists of adding a tweet to a “note” (hence the name) that provides additional data to the content originally contained in the tweet.

But then, many readers may wonder: who adds these notes? And it is that they are the users themselves, or as the social network tells them “Employees”.

To become one of them, you need to register on Twitter.

How this tool combats disinformation

According to the same official Community Notes account on the social network, the notes that appear on Twitter are not chosen by the majority. On the other hand, in order to be able to determine when a note is relevant, it must be classified as useful by several people and who also previously disagreed. This “prevents unilateral qualification”.

Notes with higher ratings have better visibility. Twitter insists that they don’t decide which notes to show, but that users do. Therefore, “the more people who participate, the better this tool will be used globally.”

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Twitter has removed its policy against misinformation about COVID-19

Twitter also said that effective Nov. 23, it stopped using policies aimed at preventing the spread of misinformation. COVID-19and its new owner, Elon MuskContinues to change the content moderation policy again.

The move comes after the tycoon, who has already clashed with US authorities over pandemic security regulations, reinstated a series of accounts on the social network that had previously been banned for violating its content rules, such as the former president. Donald Trump.

time pandemicTwitter dedicated to tagging Misleading tweets about COVID and kicked out users who continued to spread such misinformation. The social network’s blog said the banned content included statements intended to influence people to violate the guidelines of health authorities, along with false treatments or denial of scientific facts.

Twitter’s decision to no longer debunk lies about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has disappointed many public health officials, who said it could lead to more false claims about the virus, or about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.

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