Twitter Partners With AP, Reuters to Battle Misinformation on Its Site

Twitter will companion with the Associated Press and Reuters to extra rapidly present credible info on the social networking website as a part of an effort to combat the unfold of misinformation, it mentioned on Monday.

Like different social media firms, the San Francisco-based agency has been beneath stress to take away deceptive or false info on its website. Earlier this 12 months Twitter launched a programme known as Birdwatch, asking its customers to assist establish and fact-check deceptive tweets.

Twitter said it would collaborate with the newswires throughout breaking information occasions so as to add correct context, which might seem in varied locations on Twitter, comparable to a label connected to tweets in regards to the occasion or as a “Moment,” which curates details about trending matters on Twitter.

The partnerships mark the primary time Twitter will formally collaborate with information organisations to raise correct info on its website, a Twitter spokesperson mentioned.

The spokesperson added Twitter will work individually with each the AP and Reuters, a division of knowledge providers firm Thomson Reuters, and the newswires is not going to work together with one another.

“Trust, accuracy, and impartiality are at the heart of what Reuters does every day … those values also drive our commitment to stopping the spread of misinformation,” Hazel Baker, global head of UGC (user-generated content) newsgathering at Reuters, said in a statement.

Tom Januszewski, vice president of global business development at the AP, said: “We are particularly excited about leveraging AP’s scale and speed to add context to online conversations, which can benefit from easy access to the facts.”

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