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Twitter Preparing New ‘Warning’ Labels for Content Labeled ‘Harmfully Misleading’

Twitter is reportedly testing new technology that will label content the platform arbitrarily decides to be ‘harmfully misleading,’ according to reporting from NBC on Thursday.

The platform will affix “brightly colored labels” beneath content, providing users with rebuttals to tweets.

Imagery of the new feature has already been released, showing political rebuttals to claims made by prominent politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Kevin McCarthy.

The rebuttal content to supposed misleading tweets is going to be curated by a team of verified fact-checkers and journalists. Considering the track record of some of Twitter’s most infamous blue checks, it’s going to be hard to take them seriously as supposed objective arbiters of truth.

Read the full story from Big League Politics


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