Twitter Asks Netizens To Read News First Before Sharing

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JAKARTA - Twitter continues to strive to reduce the spread of misinformation or hoax content. Where every time users often link or forward articles without knowing the content of the news.

Twitter also experimented by testing the 'read before share' feature on the iOS platform. As the name implies, this feature will notify users to read an article first before uploading or retweeting the article.

Quoted from Engadget, this testing has started on Android users in June. Twitter notes that this experiment has shown positive results since it began testing.

Twitter says 40 percent of users open more articles after seeing the prompts that appear. Then the rate of people who read the article before retweeting the article rose to 33 percent.

"We wanted to test how to raise user awareness when it started by reminding people to read articles before they share them. This will lead to more informative discussions," wrote Twitter Communications Leader Brandon Borrman.

We're seeing promising results from this prompt, so we're expanding the test to iOS. Sharing an article with a Retweet or Quote Tweet? If you haven't already read the article, we may ask if you'd like to open it first. pic.twitter.com/eFrZcoUjWC

- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 1, 2020

Moreover, the Twitter social network continues to be a popular forum for political discussion, or discussing a particular issue. So Twitter is trying to encourage more reflexive user engagement by encouraging the direction of conversation that is wiser when sharing information.

The way this feature works is when users etweet an upload with an article, a prompt will appear with the caption, "Headlines don't tell the full story. Want to read this before Retweeting?"

Users can still retweet the article if they wish. So, this new feature is a reminder for users to read articles so as not to spread misinformation.