Twitter keep fighting against fake news and the false information. For a few years now, the large social networks, places where millions of users congregate to share opinions, experiences and news, have been seeing a rise in social networks. fake news and the most aggressive manipulations. Initially, these large corporations began to take revenge on the problem by attending to critical thinking and freedom of expression, but the problem has been revived with special force in times of the coronavirus. Twitter has now announced that it will change the way it operates in this regard (going Gizmodo).
Fighting Coronavirus Misinformation
Twitter has gotten tired of ignoring the problem. The social network has designed a new system for controlling and banning accounts in the fight against disinformation, and for this, it has decided that block profiles that create or spread false information about the coronavirus and vaccines. Let’s not forget that in the past year, you have millions of followers like that of actress Letitia Wright from Black Panther, spread biased and dangerous information about the feasibility of vaccines, generating doubts and uncertainty among the population. Although it seems to us a toast to the sun, Twitter is a news and information portal for many millions of people, and a tweet can have a much greater impact than that generated by official bodies or verified sources. Although all this has a double face … Should users cede critical thinking to large companies? Facebook and Australia They have entered the war for this reason, claiming the government of the country that the social network should take into account the official media such as newspapers and newscasts.
In recent days, in Spain we have witnessed how a well-known actress spread false news about COVID-19 at a press conference. Calling plandemic to the pandemic and explaining that the vaccines did not work, generated more noise in social networks and validated the discourse of many of the virus deniers, which in recent months have joined the theories of conspiracin.
How the Twitter strike system works
In any case, the social network Twitter has implemented a system of five strikes to start working from today. The idea of the portal is to alert those who break the rules of coexistence and spread fake news with a certain wide sleeve, avoiding problems by baneos or sudden prohibitions.
- A notice: no action on the account.
- Two notices: account lockout for 12 hours.
- Three notices: account lockout for 12 hours.
- Four notices: account lockout for 7 days.
- Five month warnings: permanent suspension.
The system has been in testing since last December, and the portal has confirmed that it has deleted more than 8,400 tweets containing erroneous information about COVID-19, ensuring that it has designed a system that combines bots and algorithms with human moderators.
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