Twitter Will Warn Users Who Like To Retweet Misleading Tweets

JAKARTA - 2020 will be a hard struggle for social media Twitter to eradicate misinformation or misleading content. Even the momentum of the US Presidential Election was not sufficient to reduce the spread of hoaxes or hate speech.

Reporting from 9to5Mac, Tuesday November 24, Twitter will expand the reach of warning information to users who retweet tweets that have been labeled misleading. Even Twitter will label its users who often retweet misleading tweets.

"This command helps reduce Tweets Quote misleading information by 29 percent, so we expand it to be displayed when you tap to like a Tweet labeled," said account @TwitterSupport.

Twitter itself has applied this rule to the tweet of Donald Trump who claimed victory, before the official results of the US Presidential Election came out. Where Twitter has added information and recommendations to read related news, before users retweet someone's tweet.

When a user tries to like a tweet that has been labeled as misleading content, a message will pop up saying, "Help make Twitter a place for reliable info."

Giving context on why a labeled Tweet is misleading under our election, COVID-19, and synthetic and manipulated media rules is vital. These prompts helped decrease Quote Tweets of misleading information by 29% so we're expanding them to show when you tap to like a labeled Tweet. pic.twitter.com/WTK164nMfZ

- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 23, 2020

The suggestion to read more information before retweeting has been shown to reduce the number of misleading tweets by 29 percent. This step was considered quite successful in reducing the spread of hoax on the platform.

Whereas other social media like Facebook, according to a BuzzFeed report, misinformation labeling on its platform doesn't seem to be of much help, as it only reduces by about 8 percent.

Twitter itself began labeling misleading tweets since the beginning of 2020. This was done amid hundreds of thousands of misleading tweets and misinformation related to the pandemic and the US Presidential Election.