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Twitter expands misinformation reporting in PH ahead of Halalan 2022

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Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="The Twitter logo is seen at the company" s="" headquarters="" in="" San="" California="" October="" Picture="" taken="" Robert="" Reuters="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/reuters/01/17/20220117_aleph-group-funding.jpg"/><figcaption>The Twitter logo is seen at the company&#x27;s headquarters in San Francisco, California October 4, 2013. Picture taken October 4. <em>Robert Galbraith, Reuters/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Twitter on Monday said its new safety feature on reporting potential misinformation, which it has been testing in select areas, is now available in the Philippines, Brazil and Spain.</p><p>Under the safety tool, users can flag a Tweet and mark it as &quot;It&#x27;s Misleading&quot; under the Report Tweet tab. </p><p>This feature was rolled out in August in the US, South Korea, and Australia. </p><p>Expanding the coverage will allow Twitter to draw more feedback from the community to help &quot;further understand the conversation and challenges around misinformation.&quot;</p><p>&quot;We hope this reporting feature will help our teams better understand emerging narratives and misinformation trends at scale, ultimately advancing our ability to detect misleading content on Twitter in real time,&quot; the platform said in a statement. </p><p>&quot;We’ll continue to use the data from this test to inform how we use misinformation reports and roll out this feature globally throughout 2022,&quot; it added.</p><p>The May 2022 presidential polls in the Philippines will help to further evaluate the value of this feature &quot;during civic events.&quot; </p><p>Based on its data, the &quot;vast majority&quot; of content Twitter takes action on are under COVID-19 misinformation, civic integrity and synthetic and manipulated media policies.</p><p>Over 50 percent of violative content is seen by automated systems while the majority of the remaining content is through regular monitoring of internal teams and partners, Twitter said. </p><p>&quot;We want to understand if and how public reporting options can improve the speed and breadth of our efforts to identify potentially harmful misinformation,&quot; it said.</p><p>Since the test was launched, Twitter said it has received 3.73 million reports of 1.95 million distinct Tweets authored by 64,000 distinct accounts. </p><p>Information is used to review a subset of Tweets identified by people on Twitter for potential violations and to identify emerging trends and narratives in misinformation around the world, among others, it added.</p><p>Misinformation is among the biggest challenges Twitter is facing just like all other social media platforms, former Twitter Southeast Asia Managing Director Arvinder Gujral earlier told ABS-CBN News. </p><p>Twitter has launched several initiatives to fight misinformation. Like other social media platforms, it has also removed Tweets that violated its rules and regulations, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. </p><p>Twitter said it would also apply its vast experience of running a social media platform during an election season to the Philippines&#x27; 2022 polls.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/30/21/twitter-muscle-2022-presidential-elections-trolls">Tired of trolls? Twitter says it&#x27;s ready to flex &#x27;muscle&#x27; in 2022 elections</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/29/21/twitter-public-conversation-covid-19-misinformation">Here&#x27;s how Twitter shields public conversations vs COVID-19 misinformation</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/30/21/twitter-muscle-2022-presidential-elections-trolls">Tired of trolls? Twitter says it&#x27;s ready to flex &#x27;muscle&#x27; in 2022 elections</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1674745" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

Under the safety tool, users can flag a Tweet and mark it as 'It's Misleading' under the Report Tweet tab. 

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Twitter expands misinformation reporting in PH ahead of Halalan 2022

Jessica Fenol,

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Published Jan 17, 2022 10:01 PM PHT

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Updated Jan 20, 2022 01:45 PM PHT

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