
Twitter To Provide Misinformation Warnings Ahead Of Election
Notifications will be posted at the top of your timeline, pointing you to trusted information.
Notifications will be posted at the top of your timeline, pointing you to trusted information.
Social media's attempt to stop false information around a New York Post story on Joe Biden and his son has left them open to censorship allegations.
A Clemson University researcher says some of the accounts linked back to Eastern Europe or Turkey and found a few traces of the Russian alphabet.
| Johannah Grenaway
Measures include warning labels to hide misleading tweets from certain accounts.
| Scripps News Staff
Trump’s post performed well on Twitter, but on Facebook, the equivalent post was only Trump’s 25th most interacted-with of the past year.
The company said his claims about COVID-19 could potentially dissuade people from voting.
| Nathan Byrne
The Trump Administration asked the FCC to intervene after Twitter put warning labels on two of his tweets for being misleading.
| Caitlin Baldwin
Twitter said Rep. Matt Gaetz's tweet "Can we hunt them down?" about Antifa "glorifies violence."
| Antoinette Miller
Experts say China's use of Facebook and Twitter to spread protest messages is intentional, since those platforms are banned for most Chinese citizens.
Trump has a long history of breaking Twitter's rules on threatening or glorifying violence, but this is the first time he's been reprimanded for it.
The social media company flagged the president's unsubstantiated claims on fraud with mail-in voting.
The president tweeted that mail-in voting is "substantially fraudulent" and suggested the 2020 election will be rigged.
| Johannah Grenaway
Twitter will base warnings and even removal of tweets on three categories: Misleading information, disputed claims and unverified claims.
| Antoinette Miller
A former marathoner details his symptoms while fighting COVID-19.
| Ted Rowlands
This was the first tag of its kind on Twitter, but it's not clear how effective it was; the video had at least 5 million views before being tagged.
A Twitter spokesperson told NBC News the company is considering various ways "to address misinformation and provide more context for tweets."
| Ahmed Jawadi
The accounts belong to journalists, political leaders and military branches.
| LeeAnne Lowry
The fake accounts were linked to Saudi Arabia, Georgia and Vietnam and sought to spread misinformation.
Twitter's decision to ban political ads comes as other platforms try to figure out how they should handle ads that spread misleading information.
Veterans and their likeness are often implicated in social media disinformation campaigns. Experts say without action, this problem could grow bigger.
Getting out of political ads doesn't lose Twitter much revenue, and it doesn't have to deal with the public scrutiny over lies or fact-checking.
Twitter's decision to ban political ads comes as social media platforms come under inquiry about how they handle ads that spread misleading info.
Twitter says some users' email addresses and phone numbers "may have inadvertently been used" for targeted advertising.
| Caitlin Baldwin
The social media company took a string of tweets down in less than an hour.
A Twitter spokesperson said the tweets — which used racist language to criticize four Democratic congresswomen — don't violate its rules.
One researcher found politically moderate Twitter users acted differently than liberal or conservative users in 2016 — they disengaged.
| Cliff Judy
After years of mismanagement, social media companies are retroactively trying to get rid of hate speech. It's difficult, but it can be effective.
An executive told The Washington Post that the platform wants to find a way to flag and add context to offensive tweets by public figures.
| Cristina Mutchler
The social media companies said Thursday that the accounts in question were linked to Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
| Cristina Mutchler
A new study in the journal Science found less than one percent of Twitter users surveyed were responsible for spreading misinformation in 2016.
| Cristina Mutchler