Twitter announced it will expand its test feature which allows users to flag misleading content on its social media platform to Brazil, Spain, and the Philippines.
The company made the announcement this Monday, January 17, after it had introduced a pilot test of the feature back in August 2021, as part of its” effort to reduce misinformation on its platform.”
The initial test was first launched in the United States, Australia, and South Korea, with the platform requesting its users to flag COVID-19 misinformation.
Since it was first announced, Twitter said it has received around 3 million reports from users who have used the feature to flag tweets which they believe are in violation of its policies.
The social media giant launched another program called Birdwatch last year, which lets users write notes and provide additional context to misleading tweets following their flagging its contents.
The American-based social media giant had previously launched a new feature called “Safety Mode,” which temporarily autoblocks accounts that are “found sending harmful tweets to users.”
Twitter has infamously been the leading social media platform in terms of restricting unethical, erroneous, and violent content, despite criticism of “restraining free speech.”
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