Nov 07, 2022 12:06:00

``Twitter needs to be overwhelmingly accurate as a source of information in the world, and that is our mission,'' Earon Mask CEO tweeted

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CEO Elon Musk, who has acquired Twitter and is launching various measures in rapid succession, tweeted that ``Twitter needs to be overwhelmingly accurate as a source of information in the world.That is our mission.'' increase.

Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022

While Twitter is a tool that allows you to quickly send and receive breaking news, anyone can send it freely, so it is difficult to check whether the information flowing on the timeline is correct.

For this reason, in January 2021, a function called 'Birdwatch' was added to provide reference information for tweets.

Twitter's new function 'Birdwatch' that shows reference information for false information tweets appeared - GIGAZINE

However, it has been pointed out that 'Birdwatch', which was supposed to play a fact-checking role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, was useless.

Fake news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine increases, but Twitter's fact check function 'Birdwatch' is not useful-GIGAZINE

I don't know yet what kind of measures Mr. Mask will take toward 'Twitter's mission', but with this opportunity, 'Birdwatch' may be renovated and work as a solid fact-checking function. I can't.