New Twitter policy aims to pierce fog of war misinformationStarting Thursday, the platform will no longer automatically recommend or emphasize posts that make misleading claims about the Russian inv...
19 May, 2022, 10.01 PM IST
Twitter to cut spread of BelTa, other Belarus state media postsSocial media services including Twitter in recent years have begun labeling accounts of state broadcasters and news websites to note that t...
11 Mar, 2022, 08.39 AM IST
How Twitter can fix itselfFirst, new CEO Agrawal must restore trust in the site by better policing misinformation spread by politicians and celebrities.
02 Dec, 2021, 10.45 AM IST
Twitter redesigns warning labels to help users identify fake news, misinformation easilyThe company has been testing the warning labels since July.
17 Nov, 2021, 09.17 AM IST
Twitter labels Sambit Patra's tweet on Congress "toolkit" as "manipulated media"The Congress on Thursday wrote to Twitter asking it to permanently suspend the accounts of BJP leaders including party chief JP Nadda and U...
21 May, 2021, 10.26 AM IST
Haven't seen specific focused manipulation concerning Indian assembly elections so far: TwitterIn a Spaces conversation on Wednesday, Yoel Roth, head of site integrity at microblogging platform Twitter said the company hasn't seen spe...
31 Mar, 2021, 09.00 PM IST
Twitter will use 'strike system' to remove habitual violators spreading Covid vaccine fake newsTwo strikes will lead to an account being locked for 12 hours.
02 Mar, 2021, 03.38 PM IST
Twitter will add more labels that will help identify accounts of leaders & institutionsLast year, the company had expanded account labels to 2 additional categories.
13 Feb, 2021, 01.11 PM IST
Twitter Birdwatch unveiled to help users fact check misinformationTwitter Birdwatch is on a separate section of the social media platform, and only pilot participants, who apply to the program, will write ...
26 Jan, 2021, 04.47 AM IST
Twitter will remove all misinformation about coronavirus vaccineIt will remove false or baseless claims about immunisations, and debunked myths about the vaccine.
17 Dec, 2020, 03.50 PM IST
Twitter puts manipulated media label on Amit Malviya's tweetReferring to Rahul Gandhi's previous tweet which showed a farmer trying to save himself from being hit by a policeman, Amit Malviya put out...
02 Dec, 2020, 12.52 PM IST
India needs Facebook, Twitter anti-fake toolsTrump and allies flooded social media on Wednesday with false claims of victory and unsupported allegations of voter fraud, testing Twitter...
06 Nov, 2020, 11.30 AM IST
U.S. election plagued by online misinformation about legitimate ballot countingTwitter marked Trump's latest tweet, in which he claimed without evidence that "surprise ballot dumps" were aiding rival Joe Biden, as havi...
05 Nov, 2020, 12.01 AM IST
Twitter, Facebook face labeling test on Trump's election posts"We placed a warning on a Tweet from @realDonaldTrump for making a potentially misleading claim about an election," Twitter said early Wedn...
04 Nov, 2020, 04.10 PM IST
Twitter, Facebook outline action on posts claiming early US election victoryThe moves come as social network platforms brace for what has been an unusual election cycle due to a high number of mail-in ballots that m...
03 Nov, 2020, 10.37 AM IST
Twitter to label candidate tweets that claim early U.S. election victoryIn an updated blog on the issue, the company laid out in more detail how the policy would apply ahead of Tuesday's voting.
02 Nov, 2020, 09.15 PM IST
Twitter tests reddish-magenta colour for misinformation labels to make them more obvious, directThe company is working out whether to flag users who consistently post false information.
06 Oct, 2020, 04.06 PM IST