(ANSA) - SAN FRANCISCO, 25 JAN - Enlist users to report alleged disinformation episodes on Twitter: this is the initiative announced by the same social network that is preparing to launch a new project called 'Birdwatch'.
A play on words that winks at the Twitter logo, a little bird whose tweets from now on must be carefully 'observed'.
The idea is to allow social network users to identify messages that may be false or misleading.
An initiative, they explained to Twitter, launched in the wake of the new effort to stem content deemed "false and harmful" and which saw its most striking moment with the suspension of the account of former US President Donald Trump.
It will start as a pilot project in the United States, Twitter vice president Keith Coleman explained.
It should work like this: People who identify information in the tweet that they find misleading will write context notes.
"In the end - said Coleman - we aim to make the notes visible directly on tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a wide and diverse contributor."
Although the details of the new project are not yet clear, it appears that it will be based on a similar approach to Wikipedia in which information is checked and verified by a wide range of users.
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