Twitter Cooperates With AP And Reuters To Prevent Hoaxes

Twitter wants to improve the performance of curated tium by working with the AP news agency and Reuters. (photo: unsplash)

JAKARTA - Twitter will collaborate with the two largest international news providers, Reuters and the Associated Press, to debunk disinformation on its messaging site.

News agencies will help Twitter provide more context and background information about the events that generate the largest number of tweets.

Twitter hopes this will prevent the spread of misleading information. There is now renewed pressure to remove fake content from the platform.

Twitter said the partnership would allow it to ensure accurate and credible information is available quickly "when the facts are up for debate".

"Instead of waiting for something to go viral, Twitter will contextualize discourse that evolves according to or anticipates public conversation," Twitter said.

Today, when large or rapidly growing conversations occur on Twitter that may be important or controversial, the Twitter Curation team finds and promotes relevant context from reliable sources to counter potentially misleading information posted by users.

In a blog post, Twitter said the new program would "increase the scale and speed" of these work by increasing their "capacity to add reliable context to conversations that take place on Twitter".

The post said material from Reuters and the AP would increase the credibility of information on the platform when Twitter's Curation team "does not have specific expertise or access to a sufficiently high volume of leading reporting on Twitter".