A new warning notice be slapped on any tweets deemed as misleading.
Twitter has introduced its crisis information policy to ensure that any misleading tweets are not amplified or recommended during crises in a further attempt to stamp out misinformation. Under the policy, Twitter said as soon as it has evidence that a tweet is misleading it will be slapped with a warning notice which will also feature a link to more details about the crisis misinformation policy; likes, retweets and shares will be turned off; and the content would not be recommended across the service and be stopped from surfacing on the home page, search, or explore. Twitter added it will also prioritise adding warning notices to highly visible tweets and tweets from high-profile accounts, such as state-affiliated media accounts, verified, or official government accounts. To determine whether a claim is misleading, Twitter said it will require verification from multiple credible, publicly available sources, including evidence from conflict monitoring groups, humanitarian organisations, open-source investigators, journalists, and more. Some examples of tweets that might be flagged under the new policy, said Twitter, include false on-the-ground event reporting, false or misleading allegations of war crimes, mass atrocities, or use of weapons, and false information about international sanctions, community response, or humanitarian operations.
