Twitter on Thursday said it is rolling out a new “crisis misinformation” policy that is intended to target false information during crises.
“To determine whether claims are misleading, we require verification from multiple credible, publicly available sources, including evidence from conflict monitoring groups, humanitarian organizations, open-source investigators, journalists, and more,” Twitter said in a post on Thursday.
False material spread quickly on Twitter and other social networks during the early part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including information that was spread via official Ukrainian and Russian accounts. However, false information and hoaxes also often spread during emergencies, including weather disasters, as users rush to share information that hasn’t been verified….