BREAKING: Twitter to add warning label to tweets it deems 'viral misinformation'
"To reduce potential harm, as soon as we have evidence that a claim may be misleading, we won’t amplify or recommend content that is covered by this policy across Twitter – including in the Home timeline, Search, and Explore," Twitter explained. "In addition, we will prioritize adding warning notices to highly visible Tweets and Tweets from high profile accounts, such as state-affiliated media accounts, verified, official government accounts.
Twitter went to unprecedented lengths to prevent the Post's story from being shared claiming that it stemmed from "hacked material," which was an inaccurate claim.However, Twitter has doubled down on their perceived obligation to curate the app, announcing a veritable tool belt of data manipulation for use on posts.
In fact, the company announced at the end of their blog post that expansions of the policy are already under development for "additional forms of crisis."