Twitter tweets about 5G and the corona virus are considered problematic.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Twitter said it was trying to improve how to label fact checks on 5G and related installments corona virus new type. A number of users previously reported that their squeak was considered problematic after being labeled a Covid-19 fact check.
“In the last few weeks, you might have seen tweet with a label that links to additional info about Covid-19. Not all tweet it’s potentially misleading and linking Covid-19 and 5G. We apologize for the confusion that has arisen and we are improving our fact-checking label process, “squeak @TwitterSupport.
Quoted from The Verge, Monday, Twitter started checking the facts linking 5G and the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this month. They added a label that reads “get the facts about Covid-19,” which is linked to an article titled “No, 5G does not cause corona virus.”
The fact check label is part of a broader effort by the social media company to attach a warning label to provide context for tweets with misleading Covid-19 information. In April Twitter went further by removing the mischievous tweets related to Covid-19 that were considered to incite people to engage in “dangerous activities.”
However, the system that determines which installments are marked is lacking in detail. Last week, tweets with the words “oxygen” and “frequency” were marked with a fact check label. These two words might be the keywords that triggered the label.
“Label on tweet which may contain misleading information continues to be an iterative process, “the spokesman told The Verge.
“Given the widespread distribution of misinformation about 5G and Covid-19 globally, we prioritize labeling algorithms tweet with that information. As we improve this process to be more precise, our goal is to make fewer labels on tweet unrelated, “he added.
Account Twitter Support said, “building new automatic capabilities to apply this label to Tweet which we think is relevant. “However, it is not known exactly when the fix will be implemented.
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