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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Technology
Asharq Al-Awsat

Twitter to Expand its Community Fact-Checking Experiment, Birdwatch

In this file photo taken on August 13, 2019, employees walk past a lighted Twitter log as they leave the company's headquarters in San Francisco. (AFP)

Twitter Inc will expand its community fact-checking project called Birdwatch, the social media company said on Wednesday, deepening its novel approach to a new form of content moderation.

Birdwatch launched in January last year, allowing some Twitter users to debunk misleading tweets by attaching notes to the content in order to provide context or point to accurate sources.

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