Twitter joins forces with Reuters, AP to tackle disinformation 

Twitter, an American micro blogging and social networking service first-ever announced to work together with two of the largest international news providers, Reuters and the Associated Press, to debunk disinformation on its messaging site.

The news agencies will help it give more context and background information on events which create a high volume of tweets, agencies quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Twitter hopes this will counteract the spread of misleading information.

There has been renewed pressure to remove false content from the platform.

The partnership will enable it to ensure accurate and credible information is rapidly available “when facts are in dispute”.

In a statement, “Rather than waiting until something goes viral, Twitter will contextualize developing discourse at pace with or in anticipation of the public conversation,” Twitter said.

Currently, when large or rapidly growing conversations happen on it that may be noteworthy or controversial, Twitter’s Curation team finds and promotes relevant context from reliable sources in order to counter potentially misleading information posted by users.

Twitter said the new programme would “increase the scale and speed” of this work by increasing their “capacity to add reliable context to conversations happening”. The further added the material from Reuters and AP would improve information credibility on the platform when its Curation team “doesn’t have the specific expertise or access to a high enough volume of reputable reporting on Twitter”.

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