Twitter Launches Birdwatch To Fight Misinformation

Twitter launched a new product today that it says will offer “a community-based approach to misinformation.” Birdwatch is currently only available in the U.S.A.

With Birdwatch, users will be able to flag tweets that they find misleading, write notes to add context to those tweets and rate the notes written by others. This is supposed to be a complement to the existing system where Twitter removes or labels particularly problematic tweets, rather than a replacement.