Twitter's misinformation crackdown reportedly includes boldly labeling politicians' deceptive tweets

Posted on AllSides February 20th, 2020
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Twitter is reportedly planning to make sure the world's most powerful people stick to the facts.

The social media platform is cooking up new methods of fighting misinformation on the site, including using brightly colored labels to point out "harmfully misleading" tweets sent by politicians and public officials, NBC News reports via a leaked demo of the project. Screenshots of the demo, which was running on a publicly available website, show a vibrant orange box placed beneath a tweet labeling it misleading.

Information that corrects the tweet follows the orange...

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