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January 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Continuing the trend of Big Tech censorship, Twitter announced on Monday that it would begin allowing certain users of its social media platform to “fact-check” tweets, with the ability to add notes if they discern the content to be “misleading.”
To this end, Twitter has created Birdwatch, a “community-based approach to misinformation.” The users who are selected to be part of the community watch will be asked “to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context.”
Twitter envisages that the new initiative will enable them “to respond quickly when misleading information spreads.”
The program is currently in the pilot stage of development. Americans using Twitter who have not violated the platform’s “Rules and Policies” are eligible to join the program. While Twitter will be starting with 1,000 community users for now, the hope is to extend the program to 100,000 users.
In an attempt to quell fears that the platform is building an army of politically motivated censors, the company said it is focused on “ensuring [Birdwatch] isn’t
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