Discussion

• Vox Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Twitter is considering warning users when politicians post misleading tweets

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  The “harmfully misleading” tag wouldn't just be for politicians. It'd be for climate change denial and health misinformation, too, at least according to this test. https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  The test also shows a “Community Reports” feature for disinformation. This could include “points” that would heavily weight useful “reports” of disinfo on the platform. The demo says it's “like Wikipedia.” Twitter reiterated this is just an option. https://www.nbcnews.com/... htt…

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Here's what the community reporting tool could look like. Two schools of thought on community moderation: —Without checks, it could be brigaded by bad actors, as most things do. But! —Bad actors could get scarlet letter'd by abusing the reports function https://www.nbcnews.com/..…

• @yair_rosenberg @yair_rosenberg on x

  Come on people, the video literally had *cricket sound effects* added in the background and repeated comedic cuts to the facial reactions of the various candidates. You have to think voters are really dumb to think they'd believe it was an actual unedited clip from the debate. ht…

• @thelaurenchen Lauren Chen on x

  I feel like anyone who mistakes memes or jokes for “doctored videos” should be removed from the franchise https://twitter.com/...

• @davidharsanyi David Harsanyi on x

  It's going to be fun watching competing mobs make every post orange. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  The larger question about this is who cares whether a politician has started a business? https://www.vox.com/...

• @robprovince EducatdHillbilly on x

  Oh lord. https://twitter.com/...

• @agentsaffron Vanara on x

  Embarrassing. Both for Indian Science & Twitter Right Wing. https://twitter.com/...

• @martingeddes Martin Geddes on x

  “The points system could prevent trolls or political ideologues from becoming moderators if they too often differ from the broader community in what they mark as false or misleading.” https://www.nbcnews.com/... You are free to endorse the official media narrative any way you cho…

• @saradannerdukic Sara Danner Dukic on x

  This is a great step. I'd still like the ability to see a handle's history of display names, avis, handles, and languages used, with a similar visual flag of anyone with excessive numbers of changes and/or tweets. https://twitter.com/...

• @zoo_bear Mohammed Zubair on x

  Here is what Indian twitter would look like if this feature is implemented. Most of the tweets by Right Wing will be marked as “Harmfully Misleading” as shown below 👇 https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  This isn't a reason to make a decision by itself, but some very bad actors and notorious disinformation grifters have had instant, viscerally negative reactions to this Twitter news. https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @fredbenenson @fredbenenson on x

  Whoa. This is legitimately interesting and seems well thought out. Twitter could be so much better and it's great to see their product teams flexing on sophisticated tools to help fight disinformation and lies. https://twitter.com/...

• @tomfornelli Tom Fornelli on x

  Twitter telling people what's true and what isn't I don't see any way in which this could go wrong or be exploited https://twitter.com/...

• @pff_george George Chahrouri on x

  Finally twitter is doing something to combat the tweets about team X winning all their games when running 30+ times https://twitter.com/...

• @reesetheone1 IllinoisNewDemocratRicoP on x

  Twitter with the orange labels reminds me of..... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mcclure111 Mcc on x

  100% expecting this means either “community moderation” means MAGAs get to put an orange banner under anything AOC posts or “trusted fact checkers” means the Daily Caller gets to put an orange banner under anything AOC posts https://twitter.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  At least an admirable mission for @twitter. Way better than @facebook, who will gladly take your money to lie with impunity, anyway. https://twitter.com/...

• @digiphile Alex Howard on x

  Disinformation or misinformation “posted by public figures will be corrected directly beneath the tweet by fact-checkers & journalists who are verified on the platform, & possibly other users who will participate in a new ‘community reports’ feature” Promising, & controversial. h…