According to the verge report, on Thursday, twitter announced a new policy to deal with misinformation in times of crisis, setting new standards. If some tweets are considered to be spreading misinformation, they will be checked or prevented from being promoted**
"Content auditing is more than just leaving or deleting content," yoel Roth, Twitter's director of security and integrity, said in a [blog post] detailing the new policy( https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2022/introducing-our-crisis-misinformation-policy ) "We have taken actions commensurate with the severity of the potential harm."
In particular, the new policy examines false reports of events, false allegations involving weapons or the use of force, or broader misinformation about atrocities or international responses.
Users who are eager to share messages without verification will often tweet and share other messages in case of emergency. Due to the rapid occurrence of events, it is difficult to implement a normal verification or fact checking system, which brings great challenges to auditors.
According to the new policy, tweets classified as error messages will not necessarily be deleted or banned; Instead, twitter will add a warning tag that requires users to click a button (similar to existing tags with clear images) before displaying tweets. These tweets will also be prevented from being popularized in the algorithm.
Stricter standards mean that they are limited to specific events. Twitter will initially apply the policy to content about Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine, but the company hopes to apply these rules to all emerging crises in the future. For the purposes of this policy, a crisis is defined as "a situation that poses a widespread threat to life, personal safety, health or basic life".
The policy comes at a delicate time when Twitter is in a chaotic impasse over the company's approval to sell to Elon Musk. Musk promised to reduce the company's management system to support the view of maximum freedom of expression. However, it is unclear when or how Musk's idea will be implemented because musk claims that the transaction is on hold while waiting for spam or false account calculations.