Not content with its current level of censorship, Twitter is upping its game once again, announcing a new policy where users will be issued with a warning if they like a tweet that has been deemed to contain misinformation by the tech overlords.
The platform unveiled the change Monday, citing the election and COVID-19 as justification.
Giving context on why a labeled Tweet is misleading under our election, COVID-19, and synthetic and manipulated media rules is vital, a post read.
Twitter stated that its censorship prompts have helped decrease Quote Tweets of misleading information by 29%.
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Giving context on why a labeled Tweet is misleading under our election, COVID-19, and synthetic and manipulated media rules is vital.
These prompts helped decrease Quote Tweets of misleading information by 29% so we're expanding them to show when you tap to like a labeled Tweet