Twitter announced it’s working with global public health authorities to identify experts on the new coronavirus, and its prioritizing those accounts for official verification, reports Gizmodo:
It’s the latest step in Twitter’s larger initiative to crack down on the kinds of viral hoaxes and potentially dangerous misinformation that have circulated on several social media platforms as the novel coronavirus outbreak’s intensified. Earlier this week, the company announced that it had broadened its definition of harmful content to cover anything “that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.”
Twitter also promised they’d be “Increasing our use of machine learning and automation to take a wide range of actions on potentially abusive and manipulative content…”
[T]his may result in us making mistakes. As a result, we will not permanently suspend any accounts based solely on our automated enforcement systems. Instead, we will continue to look for opportunities to build in human review checks where they will be most impactful. We appreciate your patience as we work to get it right — this is a necessary step to scale our work to protect the conversation on Twitter.
“[W]e want to be open about the challenges we are facing and the contingency measures we’re putting in place to serve the public conversation at this critical time.”
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