Twitter to work for a tool against fake news
The microblogging platform also moves to counteract the phenomenon of misleading news. In the past, he had to deal with the problem of users’ insults, though with some relevance.
The phenomenon of fake news and the impact of widespread misleading news, mainly exploiting the power of social networking, has pushed cyber giants to study countermeasures to tackle the problem: in recent months, Facebook has repeatedly announced that they would take greater effort to counteract the phenomenon of fake news by modifying their algorithms and offering users the opportunity to report posts with content from dubious reliability.
Google has redesigned the mechanisms of its search engine to better filter inaccurate content and / or from sources known to be untrustworthy.
According to a Washington Post article, Twitter is also adding to them, which would be working to develop a new tool specifically designed to counteract the circulation of inaccurate, malicious and misleading news and articles.
As you learn, the company is implementing a mechanism that will allow users to mark tweets that promote the circulation of false information so that the message is concealed when a certain number of alerts are reached.
The project would still be in a prototype stage quite early and could never even get out in the application addressed to the user. Twitter would also start experimenting with machine learning technologies to go for tweets to look for similar spam patterns and inconsistencies between information.
Twitter in the past has already faced a problem that, albeit different, has some relevance to that of fake news. For a long time, the company had to create a functional and accessible reporting system for reporting abuse and abuse, a job that did not seem to have received any particular satisfaction from the public.
