{"id":17953,"date":"2022-01-18T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:13:27","slug":"twitter-expands-misinformation-tool-to-more-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/twitter-expands-misinformation-tool-to-more-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Expands Misinformation Tool To More Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter will extend its test feature, which allows users to flag misleading content on its social media platform, to countries such as Brazil, Spain and the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social media giant introduced the new feature in August 2021 to reduce misinformation on its platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S., Australia and South Korea were the first countries to test the new feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since its launch, Twitter has received more than 3 million messages from users who have flagged tweets they believe violate Twitter&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, last year Twitter launched another program called Birdwatch, which allows participants to write notes and provide more context to misleading tweets on a separate website.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/twitter-expands-feature-allowing-users-flag-misleading-tweets-2022-01-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will expand its feature which allows users to flag misleading content to Brazil, Spain and the Philippines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-17953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17990,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}