The Big Tech company released a blog post Thursday that introduced its"crisis misinformation policy," a new set of guidelines that will regulate what sorts of information will be shared during chaotic events such as armed conflicts, natural disasters, and other crises.
"Today, we're introducing our crisis misinformation policy — a global policy that will guide our efforts to elevate credible, authoritative information, and will help to ensure viral misinformation isn't amplified or recommended by us during crises," wrote Twitter Head of Safety Yoel Roth."In times of crisis, misleading information can undermine public trust and cause further harm to already vulnerable communities.
The social platform pointed to its recent efforts to limit the spread of Russian propaganda as a case of what this new policy might look like. Russian propaganda saw a 30% drop in its reach on Twitter after the company stopped recommending or promoting it, Roth told a number of journalists in a call.
"We believe that we'll see similar effects in this context, but we're studying it closely, and we're going to share data about this as we learn more," Roth said. This new approach would not remove the content in most cases. Twitter would only remove the content"in the most severe cases where the potential to cause harm is the greatest.
It is unclear how this policy may be affected by Elon Musk's involvement in the company's future. While Musk announced Friday that he was temporarily pausing his deal with Twitter over its estimate of the number of spambots, the crisis policy could change upon Musk's final acquisition of Twitter in the future.
Twitter Does JoeBiden’s presidency count as a crisis
Twitter Translation: the right can’t just lie freely
What a joke. I guess it is midterm season 😂🤦🏼♂️We all know what the real purpose of this policy is. Hide bad news about Democtats and then hide behind these policies.
Twitter How convenient. Not suspicious at all. It’s coming
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