This year ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Twitter began flagging tweets for controversial and potentially misleading content. The website will show you a warning whenever you try to quote or quote a post in a convenient place, in an effort to prevent the spread of misinformation. Now, there is the social network Extended This feature will alert you even if you try to “like” the controversial tweet. Tapping the heart button on a misleading post will trigger a prompt with a “Learn more” button to pop up.
It is important to refer to why our election, COVID-19, and the tweet labeled under the artificial and manipulated media rules are misleading.
These hints have helped reduce misleading information quote tweets by 29% so we extend them to show when you tap a labeled tweet. pic.twitter.com/WTK164nMfZ
– Twitter support (Twitter support) November 23, 2020
Application experimental facility researcher Jane Manchan Wong discovered the extended work earlier this month. The tweets he examined, which were election-related, showed a warning that “official sources did not call the race when this was tweeted.”
