Expanded coverage of features that allow users to flag specific tweets as 'misleading'

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, which have a huge number of users, are always at risk of misinformation and hoaxes, and platform operators are also focusing on countermeasures. Twitter has announced that it will expand its coverage of the ability for users to flag 'misleading', which it has previously tested in some regions.

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Brazil, Spain and the Philippines will be able to newly flag 'misleading'. Twitter has been developing the same function in the United States, South Korea, and Australia for some time, but the target area has been expanded. 'We have received about 3 million reports to help us understand the trend of misinformation,' the company said, suggesting further enhancements.

Today we're expanding this test feature to folks tweeting from Brazil, Spain, or the Philippines. Till now we've received around 3M reports from you all, calling out Tweets that violate our policies & helping us understand new misinformation trends.

Stay tuned for more to come. Https://t.co/wB3P66Dl1Q

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 17, 2022

In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro enforced a law in September 2021 that 'social media platforms temporarily prohibit the removal of certain content', and companies are responding to this by 'harmful information. and it could spread ' had been criticized . 'Except for content that encourages crime or infringes copyright, the president bans deletions that could lead to censorship of political, ideological, scientific, artistic, or religious order. While showing his intention to protect the freedom of speech, he is also focusing on preventing the spread of false information, such as imposing criminal penalties on those convicted of organizing a large number of fake information campaigns. It is said that it is.

News site · ABS-CBN in the Philippines is the 'value of this function will become apparent in the presidential election of May 2022,' it wrote . ABS-CBN said, 'Twitter has launched several initiatives to combat misinformation, and tweets that violated rules and regulations have been removed, especially during the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19). He also said that he would apply his wealth of experience running social media platforms during the election to the 2022 poll in the Philippines. '