Recently, Twitter announced that it's creating a brand new tool to counter fake news. Called “Birdwatch”, the new feature could permit people to add notes to explain their suspicion, flag tweets, and fill up a survey form (like a review) that estimates a tweet's potential harm and reach.
Jane Manchun Wong (Twitter user @wongmjane), who was the first to identify the function in August, has since shared more screenshots of a glimpse into how the function could use crowdsourced information to moderate content on the platform.
Building up to the confirmation from Beykpour, social media consultant Matt Navarra, too, had posted a screenshot last week, which showed a tiny binoculars logotype icon showing below a tweet that allowed him to access the “Add to Birdwatch” functionality.
In her previous tweet, Wong had additionally proven how the “Birdwatch” function would allow users to add notes to the particular tweet they were flagging. The history of notes on the tweet could then be made out there for other folks/ moderators to see and vote on.
But the leaks into the working of this misinformation characteristic leave a lot to be answered. It is still not clear if the function will be open to all users, a selected set of fact-checkers, or Twitter's own band of moderators; it's also essential to look at how Twitter plans to restrict the potential trolling that this feature could unleash on Twitter.
Jane Manchun Wong (Twitter user @wongmjane), who was the first to identify the function in August, has since shared more screenshots of a glimpse into how the function could use crowdsourced information to moderate content on the platform.
Twitter continues working on “Birdwatch”, the crowdsourced misinformation combatting tool which they’ve confirmed working on yesterday— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 3, 2020
Here’s the first look of Birdwatch’s “Twitter Community” form, where users states and elaborates whether a tweet is misleading pic.twitter.com/0zbQppm2kh
Via multiple screenshots on Twitter, Wong on Saturday demonstrated how a “Twitter Community” form was generated when a tweet was “Added to Birdwatch”. The form had a number of questions that will add context to the grievance. Later, Kayvon Beykpour, Product Lead at Twitter and Co-Founder of the live-streaming application, Periscope, confirmed in a reply that he would soon be sharing more on the new Birdwatch feature.Twitter is working on a moderation tool to monitor misinformations on Twitter— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 5, 2020
Moderators can flag tweets, vote on whether it is misleading, and add a note about it
(I made up my own note to show what it currently looks like) pic.twitter.com/YIa6zt58Fj
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) September 30, 2020
Building up to the confirmation from Beykpour, social media consultant Matt Navarra, too, had posted a screenshot last week, which showed a tiny binoculars logotype icon showing below a tweet that allowed him to access the “Add to Birdwatch” functionality.
In her previous tweet, Wong had additionally proven how the “Birdwatch” function would allow users to add notes to the particular tweet they were flagging. The history of notes on the tweet could then be made out there for other folks/ moderators to see and vote on.
But the leaks into the working of this misinformation characteristic leave a lot to be answered. It is still not clear if the function will be open to all users, a selected set of fact-checkers, or Twitter's own band of moderators; it's also essential to look at how Twitter plans to restrict the potential trolling that this feature could unleash on Twitter.
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