Social media users are sharing screenshots of a tweets that feature Birdwatch notes – part of Twitter’s content moderation policies launched to help combat misinformation on its platform – and saying ...

Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey failed to see eye-to-eye on the name of a Twitter feature that flags misleading posts. Musk renamed Birdwatch to Community Notes but Dorsey said it was "the most boring ...

Less than a month after Twitter started its Birdwatch fact-checking program, a study has unearthed some troubling issues with the crowdsourced initiative. The Poynter Institute for Media Studies ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Twitter is expanding Birdwatch, its crowdsourced fact-checking pilot ...

The Birdwatch project first came to light last fall thanks to product sleuth Jane Manchun Wong. Now Twitter has launched a pilot version via the Birdwatch website. The goal, as explained in a blog ...

After tech billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter, some thought Birdwatch was bound for extinction. However, despite being a frequent target of citizen fact-checkers — and sharing falsehoods himself — ...

The social media platform’s new feature will allow users to identify information in tweets that they believe to be misleading. In an attempt to combat the spread of misinformation online, Twitter has ...

Twitter is looking to crowdsource its way out of misinformation woes with its new product Birdwatch which taps a network of engaged tweeters to add notes to misleading tweets. Today, Twitter announced ...

Twitter is introducing aliases for participants in its Birdwatch moderation tool so they don’t have to include their usernames in notes they leave on others’ tweets, the company announced in a blog ...

Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar to Wikipedia to flag potentially misleading tweets. The ...

In a significant attempt to overhaul how it moderates content, Twitter on Monday unveiled Birdwatch, a pilot program to crowdsource fact-checks to combat misinformation. In this photo illustration a ...