The anti-fake news label on COVID-19 arrives on Twitter

Twitter recently introduced theanti-fake news label on COVID-19, as part of its attempt to more decisively combat the spread of false news about the pandemic. All the tweets they will report fake news is that will violate the rules of the social network, will be branded as “misleading”. Let’s find out more details together.

Twitter announces anti-fake news label on COVID-19

The Twitter support page explains to the public which tweets are likely to be branded as misleading on the social network. Twitter specifies that it will label all “content that is unquestionably false or deceptive and likely to carry a significant risk of harm (such as increased exposure to the virus or adverse effects on public health systems”.

Among these contents we therefore find every kind of post published with the purpose of deceive or confuse the public about COVID-19. They also include fake posts that question the effectiveness and the safety of preventive measures, therapy or other precautions aimed at alleviating or treating the disease, official regulations, restrictions The exemptions related to health warnings.

In short, any false news regarding various aspects of the pandemic will be controlled ed labeled from Twitter. Furthermore, based on the post and the severity of the news, the social network could also add notes in which he explains why the news was tagged as false. Doing so offers even the most confused people gods clarifications.

Furthermore, to prevent the post from going viral, the platform will disable the ability to interact it by all other users. It will therefore not be possible to make a retweet The citation the content. To conclude, the platform claimed that will also take action against the author who posted the fake news.

Depending on the severity of the post, Twitter will act with a warning system:

• First notice: no action at the account level;
• Second notice: account blocking for 12 hours;
• Third notice: account blocking for another 12 hours;
• Fourth notice: account block for seven days;
• Fifth notice (or more): permanent suspension.

For further information you can consult the support page in twitter.