The social networking gaint has confirmed that alongside deleting thousands of tweets and examining over 11.5 million accounts linked to fake information on the microblogging platform, the company will now start applying labels to tweets “that may contain misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines.”
This method was first spotted on Facebook, which has also focused on audiences who spread rumors based on user locations and measuring attitudes to topics including vaccinations and mask-wearing worldwide.
First, Twitter intends to carry out this process in human employees to make the decisions over whether tweets violate company policy, and these assessments will then be used to teach automated tools and algorithms to detect misinformation.
The company intends to eventually use “both automated and human review to address content that violates our COVID-19 vaccine misinformation rules.”
Twitter will alert users when they receive a strike, and after two, a 12-hour account lock will be applied. After three strikes, another 12-hour ban will be imposed, and after four, users will be unable to access their account for a week. Five strikes or more will be punished by permanent suspension. However, users do retain the right to appeal.
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