Twitter will expand its community-based fact-checking project called Birdwatch, the social media company said Wednesday, deepening its new approach to a new form of content moderation.
Launched in January last year, Birdwatch allows some Twitter users to spot misleading tweets by attaching notes to the content to provide context or point to accurate sources.
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Social media platforms, including Twitter, have long faced competitive pressure to moderate the content of their services. Critics accuse the companies of not doing enough to remove harmful posts, while others say the platforms should protect free speech.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is seeking to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, said the company should remove fewer posts and act as a public town hall for free speech.
Keith Coleman, vice president of product, told reporters at a briefing that while Twitter has policies in place that prohibit content such as hate speech or calls for violence, Birdwatch permission the Twitter community to address tweets in "grey areas."
"We think it's a wonderful location to start because it's only arming people with knowledge and letting them make their own decisions," he said.
Until nowadays, Birdwatch has been an unreasonable experiment with 15,000 contributors writing fact-check notes. Twitter said it will directly add approximately 1,000 new contributors per week.
Birdwatch notes are kept on a separate website, but half of the users in the United States will start seeing the messages on their Twitter timelines, the company said.
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