Twitter will start showing crowd-sourced fact checks to some users
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A small group of US Twitter users will now see crowdsourced notes under tweets flagged as misleading. The user-generated notes are part of a program called Birdwatch, launched in 2021 by Twitter to address misinformation on the platform.
Birdwatch allows contributors to write context notes and sources under tweets and rate whether existing notes are helpful. A pilot program with 10,000 contributors has been underway since last year, but only visible on a separate Birdwatch site - now, some Twitter users will see notes with high ratings directly under tweets and be able to rate their usefulness.
Image: TwitterBy empowering people to do this together, they can add helpful and informative context for people from...