Twitter unveiled a feature Monday aimed at bolstering its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by permitting users to add notes to tweets they believe are false in an attempt to ‘add context’ for other users. The pilot program unveiled Monday, called Birdwatch, adopts a Wikipedia-like ‘community-driven’ approach to fact-checking, and will first be rolled … Read more
President Trump will sign some sort of ‘social media’-focused executive order on Thursday, White House officials said, amid a rift with Twitter after the company started fact-checking his tweets. Reporters traveling on board Air Force One Wednesday were told by press secretary Kayleigh McEnany that an executive order was coming as soon as Wednesday night, … Read more
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg claims the platform ‘isn’t capable’ of fact-checking political ads Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said it’s not able to fact-checking political ads Sandberg’s comments mark a shift in narrative from previous statements Facebook has claimed that fact-checking political ads violates free speech By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 22:59 GMT, 27 February 2020 | … Read more