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Factually: Twitter, your Birdwatch has problems

This is the Feb. 18, 2021 edition of Factually. More than half of the content in Birdwatch does not include a single source.

Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems

A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric.

IFCN Talks #1: ‘Fact-checkers shouldn’t be shields for social media platforms,’ researchers say

The first-of-its-kind panel covered issues around social media deplatforming and what role fact-checking can play.

Fact-checkers express initial skepticism about Twitter’s ‘Birdwatch’

Some worry about the potential for abuse, while others argue it minimizes their expertise.

Twitter permanently suspends President Donald Trump

'After a close review of Tweets ... we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,' the company said.

Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg at a crossroads on their companies’ misinformation policies

IFCN · Dorsey y Zuckerberg van al Senado y adoptan argumentos similares Jack Dorsey and…

Without methodology or transparency, Facebook and Twitter become the ‘arbiters of the truth’

Naive are those who believe this isn't dangerous

A growing group of journalists has cut back on Twitter, or abandoned it entirely

Journalists view Twitter as a valuable platform for finding and sharing information, but many say they wish they used it less.

In the battle over content moderation, transparency seems to be all anyone can agree on

This is the September 10, 2020 edition of Factually

Fact-checkers support Twitter labels, but more than that, they want transparency

Most U.S. fact-checkers supported Twitter’s effort to label President Donald Trump’s tweets on mail-in balloting,…

Twitter needs to harness automation to combat falsehoods

Twitter got some great headlines this week when it started linking President Donald Trump’s tweets…

Is Donald Trump really the only misinformer that Twitter can find?

It’s been more than 24 hours since Twitter flagged tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s audience team stopped putting all their time into Twitter (and referral traffic stayed the same)

How has fake news on Twitter changed since the 2016 election? Not much, report finds

The study looked at more than 10 million tweets from about 700,000 accounts linking to…

Twitter’s new political ad policy exempts news media. Facebook’s still doesn’t.

Starting next month, anyone who buys political advertisements on Twitter must follow a certification process…