After Facebook, Twitter took the initiative to stop sharing fake news. One fake, baseless information after another is spreading on social media in fear of Corona. As a result, ordinary people are getting confused.
All the popular social media have long taken various initiatives to stop fake news. This time Twitter has come up with a new feature to stop the spread of fake news. It is learned that from now on users will have to go through a new stage before retweeting or sharing any tweet. Before retweeting or sharing a tweet, the user will be asked if he has opened or read the post. The user will be able to retweet the post after replying to it.
Through this method, Twitter wants to verify the factual authenticity of a post through the user. For now, this special feature has been piloted for Android users only. At the beginning of the year, Facebook came to discuss such an initiative. At that time, the Facebook authorities took initiative to prevent the dissemination of correct information and sharing of wrong information about Corona.
Sharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) June 10, 2020
To help promote informed discussion, we're testing a new prompt on Android –– when you Retweet an article that you haven't opened on Twitter, we may ask if you'd like to open it first.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that about 200 million users of health services are sharing information about the corona virus through Facebook and Instagram to raise awareness. In the same way, about 35 crore users are clicking on Facebook to know about Corona. So we continue to try to reduce the spread of misinformation through Facebook and Instagram.
He added that since the beginning of March, Facebook has started working in more than 12 new countries to verify the news (fact-checking). Facebook is already viewing various posts related to coronavirus in more than 50 languages in association with more than 600 fact-checking organizations. If a post contains false or incorrect information, it is being removed.
Note that a feature called 'Get the Facts' has been introduced in the articles written by fact-checkers to expose misinformation about coronavirus on Facebook.
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