More than 300,000 tweets related to the US presidential election has been labelled as “potentially misleading” by Twitter in the two weeks surrounding the vote, making up 0.2 percent of election-related posts, the company said Thursday. Of the 300,000 flagged tweets, 456 were covered over by a warning message andContinue Reading
Facebook users gather in groups to chat about shared interests, but the online spaces have also been used to spread misinformation. Facebook has temporarily stopped recommending new and political groups ahead of the US elections amid concerns about misinformation, the company said Friday. “This is a measure we put inContinue Reading
The move comes as social networks fight a wave of misinformation in the wake of the US presidential election. Facebook is putting on probation groups whose posts consistently violate the social network’s community standards, the company said Saturday, a move that’s part of its broader attempts to stop misinformation inContinue Reading
