“Twitter introduces fact-check labels for images and expands Community Notes feature”

From now on, Twitter will also give users the option of adding a fact-check label to images if they think the photo is misleading. The Community Notes function could previously only be used with a single tweet.

If users choose to add a Community Note to an image, if enough other users find the note helpful, it will automatically appear every time the same image is posted to Twitter. Twitter will let you know that the photo must be almost exactly the same, so if another user slightly adjusts the photo, there is a chance that the fact-check comment will not be included. Twitter says it will expand photo recognition in the future, but at the same time wants to ensure that the labels don’t end up with the wrong photos.

For the time being, there will only be a label for tweets with one photo, but the intention is that the functionality will also work later if there are several photos in a tweet. Community Notes should also become available for videos in the future. According to Twitter, the feature is intended to make other users aware of “misleading media,” such as AI-generated photos. The function has been available for individual tweets for a number of years now, for example to warn users about false information about covid-19.