Twitter To Accept Blue Check Mark Requests in 2021 Following 3-Year Hiatus
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Twitter announced on Tuesday the company would start accepting applications in 2021 for users to be verified after a three-year hiatus.
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«We know we can’t solve verification with a new policy alone — and that this initial policy won’t cover every case for being verified — but it is a critical first step in helping us provide more transparency and fairer standards for verification on Twitter as we reprioritize this work, Twitter wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday. «This version of the policy is a starting point, and we intend to expand the categories and criteria for verification significantly over the next year.
The social network also has verified dozens of users who frequently spread tweets containing misinformation and falsehoods. Under Twitter’s new guidelines, only organizations that «adhere to recognized professional standards for journalism laid out by groups like the Society of Professional Journalists and the International Fact-Checking Network will receive verification.
The tightened standards will result in users and organizations losing verification status, but a Twitter spokesman would not comment further.
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Twitter Keeps Some Measures It Says Slowed Election Misinformation
In the lead up to the November election, Twitter added «friction to the platforms to slow down the rapid spread of misinformation, including an extra step before retweeting any posts from another account; labels on tweets that may contain misleading information and warning labels before someone can «like a post carrying a disputed claim.
Twitter says since unrolling the temporary features, shares of misleading information have dropped nearly 30% on the platform.
Conversely, public health authorities and other experts have been verified by Twitter in recent months as part of a push to provide the public with credible information about the deadly virus.
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