Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking program, Birdwatch, accepted a QAnon supporter account into its ranks, according to a leaked internal audit. To make matters even worse, Twitter had been warned by experts ahead of time that this exact scenario might be possible.
The audit, a copy of which was seen by The Washington Post, reveals that the “overt” QAnon account was only discovered amongst the Birdwatch fact-checkers the night before the program launched. Some explicit feedback from misinformation experts — including the very real possibility of QAnon infiltration — was “not incorporated” into Twitter’s plans for Birdwatch, the audit says.
