By Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Twitter has introduced new labels and warning messages to posts that contain “disputed or misleading information” related to COVID-19, the company said Monday.
The new labels — which will be retroactively applied to older tweets — will link to a Twitter-curated page (or an external “trusted source”) with additional information on the claims.
If a post on Twitter is deemed especially harmful, the social network may also apply a warning that “will inform people that the information in the tweet conflicts with public health experts’ guidance before they view it,” Twitter head of site integrity Yoel Roth and director of policy strategy Nick Pickles wrote in a blog post announcing the new policy.
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