The new policy of the Crisis Disinformation Platform is designed to slow the spread of viral lies during natural disasters, armed conflicts and public health emergencies, the company said. For example, politics bans “proven false” or misleading allegations of targeted war crimes; false reports of events unfolding on the ground in the midst of conflict; and false allegations of gun use. Special attention will be paid to government-related or state-owned media accounts that make such allegations, Twitter said (TWTR (TWTR)). from conflict monitoring groups, humanitarian organizations, open source investigators, journalists and many more, “wrote Joel Roth, head of Twitter’s security and integrity department, in a blog post. The new policy comes when the war in Ukraine is ready to enter its fourth month and as accusations of Russian war crimes and propaganda continue to rise. On Thursday, CNN reported that cybersecurity firm Mandiant said suspected Russian and Belarusian actors had falsely claimed that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had died in a suicide as part of an alleged information operation. This also comes amid an ongoing global battle for the future of platform moderation, with officials in Europe seeking to raise standards for technology company content decisions and lawmakers in many US states seeking to force platforms to moderate more. a little. The U.S. Supreme Court is now ready to decide whether Texas law, which forces technology platforms to stop moderating their sites, can remain in place.
Twitter said its efforts to develop a disinformation policy during the crisis began last year, before the war in Ukraine. As part of its policy, Twitter said it described the crisis as “situations in which there is a widespread threat to life, physical safety, health or basic living”.
The tweets, which are tagged according to the rules, may remain in the service, Roth wrote in a blog post, but will be hidden behind a label informing viewers that the tweets’ claims “could harm the crisis-stricken population.”
The policy applies first to the war in Ukraine and the armed conflict in general, but will soon expand to other areas, Roth said.
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