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Elon Musk says Twitter's Birdwatch feature will be renamed 'Community Notes' and is aimed at 'improving information accuracy' amid growing content-moderation concerns
The tool, which allows users to add context notes to potentially misleading posts, went public last…
Bethany Biron
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Twitter's Birdwatch feature hopes to combat misinformation. Here's how it works and how to sign up for it
Twitter's Birdwatch feature lets users flag tweets they believe are misleading or need additional c…
Meira Gebel
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Twitter's new 'Birdwatch' feature will let users to sift through and add notes to misleading tweets
Twitter is enlisting the help of a small group of US users to vet tweets that could contain misinfo…
Katie Canales
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Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's decision to rebrand the Birdwatch feature to Community Notes, saying it's the 'most boring Facebook name ever'
Elon Musk said the name Birdwatch gives him "the creeps." Jack Dorsey hit back, saying Community No…
Kate Duffy
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Amy Cooper, who falsely called 911 on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park, is suing her former employer over her firing
Amy Cooper has sued Franklin Templeton. She said the company fired her without investigating the in…
Reuters,Kelly McLaughlin
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Twitter accepted QAnon account into its community anti-misinformation project, leaked internal audit says
Twitter only discovered the "overt" QAnon-linked account the night before its invite-only Birdwatch…
Beatrice Nolan
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Twitter suspended comedian Kathy Griffin's account after she changed her name to Elon Musk to make fun of him
Musk said that Twitter handles impersonating someone will be suspended without warning if their own…
Matthew Loh
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What are Twitter Newsletters? How you can sign up to grow your Twitter following and monetize your content
Twitter Newsletters is a publishing tool that makes it easy to design, schedule, and publish long-f…
Ron Lyons, Jr. ,Abbey White
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Twitter's disinformation team had to 'beg' other teams for help because of a lack of tools and staff, a leaked audit says
The audit found that the company's Site Integrity team did not have the necessary engineering suppo…
Beatrice Nolan
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The White House deleted a tweet that credited Biden for an increase in Social Security payments after a Twitter feature gave it a fact-check label
The White House said the tweet lacked context, but it wasn't the first time Biden touted the Social…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Gruesome video shows a Great Blue Heron eating a huge New York City rat in one big gulp
A video posted by birdwatcher David Barrett shows a Great Blue Heron dunking a New York City rat in…
Matthew Loh
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Twitter jumps 6% after the social media giant buys Substack competitor Revue
Twitter announced the acquisition of Revue for undisclosed terms. The newsletter service will help …
Will Daniel
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Musk says Twitter needs to become the 'most accurate source of information' about the world, but critics point out a now-deleted tweet he shared about Pelosi attack
Musk previously shared a link to a site that promoted conspiracy theories following the attack on S…
Hannah Getahun
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The white woman who called 911 after a black bird-watcher asked her to leash her dog has 'voluntarily surrendered' her pet to an animal rescue
When the man said, "You're not going to like what I'm going to do next," Amy Cooper said she mistoo…
Rhea Mahbubani
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An old photo of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell was tagged with a note on Twitter saying there is 'no photo evidence that suggests they conversed' after a new 'context' feature rolled out
The context note attached to the widely shared Musk and Maxwell photo is part of Twitter's new Bird…
Travis Clark
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Twitter surpassed 192 million daily active users in Q4 as the social media company grappled with criticism of its role in the spread of election misinformation
Over the last three months of 2020, Twitter faced backlash for banning a New York Post story and fo…
Katie Canales
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Fox host Maria Bartiromo complained about left's 'censorship obsession' on air, and said she's lost over 100k Twitter followers
"Yeah, I had-right around the election-one million followers on Twitter," Bartiromo told Missouri S…
Azmi Haroun
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How 'cancel culture' quickly became one of the buzziest and most controversial ideas on the internet
Despite the positive intentions of many cancellations, people tend to call out "cancel culture" as …
Rachel E. Greenspan
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The latest viral 'Karen' video shows a woman yelling 'I have a Black husband' as she breaks down in fear of being canceled
An interaction between a white woman and a Black man in Seattle shows the complexity behind the hug…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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Elon Musk's biggest fans on X love Community Notes — until it comes for them
Fans of the new Twitter, now X, say Community Notes is the superior alternative to removing misinfo…