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attn birdwatchers, the birdwatch account says joined october 2020 but has balloons today. very suspicious, reeks of disinfo https://t.co/U9vJZ5r0Wa pic.twitter.com/6r9KJNNA3f
— LB™️ “???? ?????” ? (@LydiaBurrell) January 25, 2021
Oh wow. This is potentially huge and important (ht: @chrismessina). https://t.co/CWyWXZKb78
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) January 22, 2021
Pretty much anybody can apply to be part of the trial for Twitter's new Birdwatch community, which they hope to roll out to more users if it works.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
It won't just be fact-checkers and high-profile accounts, but you need to use a real email address.https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
? Today we’re introducing @Birdwatch, a community-driven approach to addressing misleading information. And we want your help. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/aYJILZ7iKB
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 25, 2021
This is getting mixed reviews, mainly because people are just reading the headlines.
— Sam Harrelson (@samharrelson) January 25, 2021
In reality, this could be a really interesting (and useful) tool if it’s anything like Reddit’s user trust system and there is transparency built into the system (and data releases).
Good move. https://t.co/qXoyjtr1BL
We’re looking for people to test this out in the US –– you can add notes with helpful context to Tweets that you think are misleading.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 25, 2021
For now, these notes won’t appear directly on Twitter, but anyone in the US can view them at: https://t.co/x4X4ffaGIm (2/3)
I've always been confused why Twitter doesn't have a way to report misleading tweets, and Birdwatch seems like a good start at dealing with that https://t.co/jrPZyZyQBi
— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) January 25, 2021
Hi! Today we’re announcing Birdwatch. It’s the start of an experiment in community-based misinformation labeling and additive context on Twitter https://t.co/8JPWT4w5K6
— Jonah Grant (@jonah) January 25, 2021
We'll use the notes and your feedback to help shape this program and learn how to reach our goal of letting the Twitter community decide when and what context is added to a Tweet.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 25, 2021
For details and how to apply to be a part of Birdwatch: https://t.co/bt5BzIpe4o (3/3)
Twitter might publish Birdwatch data (their misinfo combatting tool) daily
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) January 21, 2021
so the “community” (public?) get to analyze the data, on whether people think a tweet is misinfo
The files are formatted as TSV, w/ the structure as follows (tried my best to represent it in TypeScript) pic.twitter.com/4AgwqV2V6m
Birdwatch will, at first, be a separate place where users can discuss tweets that might contain disinfo on the platform.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
The results will be cordoned off from Twitter to start, but that may change down the line.https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
misinformation is the number one problem platforms like ours need to tackle. launching a thoughtful experiment today and doing a ton of thinking in this space. https://t.co/EvrLVLfiLd
— Lara Cohen ?? (@Larakate) January 25, 2021
NEW from me + @brandyzadrozny:
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
Twitter is launching a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature called Birdwatch.
It's their new effort to fight disinformation on the platform, and it feels a lot like Reddit and Wikipedia.https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
Idea: @birdwatch, but for tweets that are just really bad
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) January 25, 2021
The site is basically a shell at the moment. You can sign up here. https://t.co/9ieDGfM26h
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) January 25, 2021
Twitter's new user-generated fact-checking portal, Birdwatch, is a pretty substantial step for the company.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
Its creators spent a lot of time trying to stop it from becoming weapon in the information war, which we outline in this story.
Will it work?https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
Twitter is piloting a new program allowing users to add notes to tweets they believe are misleading -- including tweets from media outlets https://t.co/7u2fU9Gr2q
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) January 25, 2021
Fascinated by how fast social platforms are adopting a jury-by-peer model of adjudication to fight the reach of mis- and disinformation.
— Chris Messina (@chrismessina) January 22, 2021
This trend seems to be taking over faster than stories proliferated! ⚡
See also: @OversightBoard, Parler
/cc @mmasnick #Section230 https://t.co/X51EiP7NUq
Crowd sourced and the barrier to entry is just phone and email verification? This is a disaster awaiting to happen - just going to be a race to see which clique can disarm their enemies the fastest, in every niche. https://t.co/kyCo2S7Dra
— Jeff Veillette (@JeffVeillette) January 25, 2021
I have MANY concerns with Birdwatch.
— Tiffany C. Li (@tiffanycli) January 25, 2021
Unlike Wikipedia, Twitter is not one cohesive community, and users are not dedicated to a common purpose of sharing knowledge.
Imagine the harassment and disinfo you already see in replies and QTs, but transposed to a “fact check” context! https://t.co/dNDymD6HVE
But of course apparently moderation is.....a US only problem? ? pic.twitter.com/fPNldB6KIZ
— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) January 25, 2021
I’m very excited about the potential for decentralized moderation on Twitter, as a means to increase scale, speed and trust around important problems like Misleading Info. @Birdwatch is our first start— a community-driven approach to addressing misleading information. More ?? https://t.co/7aqbJAsQzv
— Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) January 25, 2021
Twitter is about to become a little more like reddit and Wikipedia, turning to users to add context to misleading tweets in a new pilot project known as Birdwatch: https://t.co/2KsG1JC26v
— Brian Fung (@b_fung) January 25, 2021
Twitter's new move against misinformation is called Birdwatch https://t.co/OFCDDL3W76
— FutureShift (@futureshift) January 25, 2021
Twitter launches crowdsourced fact-checking portal 'Birdwatch' https://t.co/SeCF84W62A via @Mashable
— Stuart Cosgrove (@Detroit67Book) January 25, 2021
Twitter launches crowdsourced fact-checking portal 'Birdwatch' https://t.co/42fPnC5gQA
— FutureShift (@futureshift) January 25, 2021
Twitter has announced a new feature, called Birdwatch, aimed at combating misinformation and disinformation with a "community-driven approach" that allows users to add context to tweets they believe are misleading.https://t.co/CsYtUmC563
— Axios (@axios) January 25, 2021
Twitter’s Birdwatch fights misinformation with community notes https://t.co/OBV5jM5deK #twitter #socialmedia
— Tweepsmap (@tweepsmap) January 25, 2021
Librarians: Start your engines. #Twitter #misinformation https://t.co/X2rQDKgcbG
— Kelly Ann Librarian ? (@kellywellread) January 25, 2021
Twitter launches Birdwatch, a fact-checking program intended to fight misinformation https://t.co/CLMjF50DSd via @Verge
— Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs) January 25, 2021
Hard to know if this might work or have any impact in the cesspool. But it's interesting nonetheless.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) January 25, 2021
Twitter launches Birdwatch, a fact-checking program intended to fight misinformationhttps://t.co/YCERpXReN0
Twitter launches Birdwatch, a fact-checking program intended to fight misinformation https://t.co/gDgje8I0bf pic.twitter.com/GZUDTAVVUZ
— The Verge (@verge) January 25, 2021
I fail to see how having a "community-approach" to censure is so much better than a corporate approach. https://t.co/bHwy6ElPbQ Majoritarian limits on free speech are nothing new. Indeed, that is the point of free speech protections. You do not need to protect popular speech.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 25, 2021
Twitter、誤解を招く情報に対抗する「コミュニティ主導型アプローチ」の「バードウォッチ」を発表。
— Ayaka N. Gardner ??【 PRESIDENT TRUMP MAGA??】 (@ayakagardner) January 25, 2021
「バードウォッチ」では、他のユーザーのために「文脈を追加する」を加え、ユーザーが偽物だと考えているツイートにメモを追加することができるようになるとか。
❶ つづくhttps://t.co/87h53etPFM
So Twitter is going to let it's userbase that is overwhelmingly libs be the arbiter of what is misinformation. This will surely end well.https://t.co/5TitEp8sFS pic.twitter.com/4kfnr2ojoH
— Watchdog (@LibWatchdog) January 25, 2021
Snitches get stitches ?
— Lys, Sexy Catapulter 1 (@syl_capulet1) January 25, 2021
Twitter unveils 'Birdwatch,' a 'community-driven approach' to combat misleading informationhttps://t.co/tJsZQzchRQ
Twitter unveils 'Birdwatch,' a 'community-driven approach' to combat misleading information | Fox News https://t.co/W5qCefBlxz
— EndGameWW3 (@EndGameWW3) January 25, 2021
We needed this for so long. Welcome news!
— Christopher ?? Proud Dem (@cwebbonline) January 25, 2021
Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation https://t.co/cesQzdAU9o via @nbcnews
lol this is going to get me banned forever https://t.co/oDRGdI0naa
— chris8365001276 (@MrTooDamnChris) January 25, 2021
Twitter launches Orwellian "#Birdwatch" program where your peers, in partnership with Twitter, decide what reality is. If you engage in wrongthink they don't agree with, you get downvoted & labeled. The social credit system in the West isn't going away.https://t.co/Lw8VTwPvcW
— D. S. Nelson (@process_x) January 25, 2021
New and potentially cool:
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) January 25, 2021
Twitter is launching ‘Birdwatch,’ a Wikipedia-ish moderation forum to combat misinformation. I have some concerns about the safety of contributors, but it's got promise! https://t.co/WkhxzpWjlB
So @BrandyZadrozny and I got a peek under the hood of Twitter's new crowdsourced fact-checking forum. Some quick takeaways:
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
1 - They're trying to recapture the magic of Wikipedia, where a community emerged and protected the integrity of the site.https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation — with your help https://t.co/IREHTUmcaf
— Dave Agar (@dave1agar) January 25, 2021
‘Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation’
— SweetDee - Back on the main, Bitches - Sez (@sweetdeesez) January 25, 2021
“Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading or false, and write notes that provide informative context.” https://t.co/LsULIMBqLD
#Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation https://t.co/53CfW7Ly0J #fakenews #birdwatch pic.twitter.com/UkI5qiFuMa
— Evan Kirstel (@EvanKirstel) January 25, 2021
Twitter has spent a year experimenting and re-thinking its attitude to misinforming content and while we'll see whether any of it works I'm just grateful for its leadership and ambition https://t.co/sLFafZT7lK
— Alexios (@Mantzarlis) January 25, 2021
.@twitter, for as much crap as we give them, is at least *trying* to make some strides to take on disinfo and hate on their platform.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) January 25, 2021
Interested to see how this works, but would suspect that, like everything, it will be destroyed by brigades of trolls. https://t.co/dFV9oHiw4p
Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation https://t.co/BXt9hGDh4i
— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) January 25, 2021
The big thing I'm worried about with Birdwatch? Brigading.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
Say one extremist forum REALLY hates one true tweet by a specific user. They all sign up en masse and drown out good info.
As this rolls out to more people, I didn't see defense against that.https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' [aka Twats] a forum to combat misinformation — with your help https://t.co/dIuFWENRyO via @nbcnews
— CatoTheYounger (@catoletters) January 25, 2021
NBC News: Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation.https://t.co/2nhyBsDoPp
— Agolf Twitler Slayer (@bblock29) January 25, 2021
via @GoogleNews
Twitter launches Birdwatch, a fact-checking program intended to fight misinformation https://t.co/5VBoo8shgq pic.twitter.com/oKxL9Hlgtz
— The Verge (@verge) January 26, 2021
NEW: @twitter unveils #Birdwatch: a 'community-driven approach' to combat misleading informationhttps://t.co/P0hKnZM30y
— Brooke Singman (@BrookeSingman) January 25, 2021
ANOTHER idea brought to you by twitter's refusal to pay human moderators. https://t.co/sM4ob7hJwT
— Liana (censored) Kerzner (@redlianak) January 26, 2021
Long term, Twitter wants to take the labeling of harmful lies out of the mouth of a faceless team at the company and give it to the community.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 25, 2021
It could work. It's just going to take a ton of work setting up the infrastructure for a trustworthy community.https://t.co/jiIOiI14ML
Twitter’s attempt to combat disinformation is a new feature in the drop down menu. #Birdwatch https://t.co/26wlGclA56
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) January 25, 2021
“Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading or false, and write notes that provide informative context” https://t.co/nVcXWRICtq via @nbcnews
— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) January 25, 2021
Cunningham’s Law, made industrial strength. https://t.co/63DhObwjk0
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) January 26, 2021
Twitter startet crowdbasierte Factchecking-Plattform Birdwatch. https://t.co/7Qmw9RQMdz
— kpunktnull (@kpunktnull) January 26, 2021
While creative solutions are a great thing, I'm not sure if what looks like a libertarian approach to harmful speech will succeed as is. It may work with calibrated change though. It's great to see that it's going to be possible to audit the labelling. https://t.co/yxPdCUk8gt
— Chinmayi Arun (@chinmayiarun) January 26, 2021
"Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar to Wikipedia to flag potentially misleading tweets." https://t.co/UHaXId6TN1
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 26, 2021
Worth a try.
This is going to have multiple pathologies. I've been online in the internet since the 90s: the best case is an orthodoxy that bans non-orthodox positions. Other failure cases are worse.https://t.co/FUQnezYaGA
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) January 26, 2021
So, @Twitter launches #Birdwatch, an initiative to combat 'misleading information' on their platform.
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) January 26, 2021
Here @Jack, let me help you. Start with @khamenei_ir!https://t.co/Ta0Y9pqTqq
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— SmartSassyLady (@SaneSophisticat) January 25, 2021