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Twitter will begin prompting users when you ‘Like’ a disputed tweet

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Ricky 24 November 2020

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Twitter’s latest crackdown on the spread of misinformation comes in the form of another warning message. Users are already shown a warning when they try to retweet a tweet that’s been marked with potentially misleading information. Now Twitter will show you a warning when you try to ‘Like’ a Tweet that’s been labeled as potentially misleading.

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. pic.twitter.com/WTK164nMfZ

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 23, 2020

Twitter mentions that it’s prompts have helped curb Quote Tweets of flagged Tweets by 29%, but it hasn’t mentioned if it’s helped reduce un-quoted Retweets.

With these new prompts, Twitter hopes it can reduce the amount of likes on potentially dangerous tweets and news about COVID-19 during a time when the world is seeing a global surge of infections of the virus.

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  • Anonymous
  • XND
  • 09 Jan 2021

If you want to stop spreading misleading information, block those points temporarily and if proven, permanently. One thing can be seen but not liked. Ridiculous!!

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  • valentyn0
  • p$V
  • 29 Nov 2020

Whole Twitter is a misleading platform, bunch of hypocrites.

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  • Cyberchum
  • Nue
  • 25 Nov 2020

They allow every media to; where did you get that they don't allow all but the two you mentioned to? You know that a disclaimer isn't a refusal to allow tweet to be posted, right? If you had said that disclaimers should be added to ev...

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