By Sheila Dang
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc will collaborate with the Associated Press and Reuters to provide credible data to social media more temporarily as part of an effort to combat the spread of contempt, it said on Monday.
Like other social media companies, the San Francisco-based company has been forced to remove misleading or false data from its site. Earlier this year, Twitter introduced a program called Birdwatch, which asked its users to identify and determine misleading tweets.
Twitter said it would collaborate with news sources on sometimes last-minute occasions to upload an express context, which may appear on Twitter, as a tag attached to tweets about the occasion or as a “Moment,” which organizes data on trend topics. on Twitter.
The partnerships mark the first time Twitter will officially collaborate with the media to get accurate data on its site, a Twitter spokesperson said.
The spokesman added that Twitter would work with AP and Reuters, a corporate news facilities department of Thomson Reuters Corp, and that news sources would not interact with each other.
“Trust, accuracy and impartiality are at the heart of what Reuters does every day . . . these values are also driving our commitment to prevent the spread of contempt,” Hazel Baker, global director of UGC (Reuters user-generated content) data collection, said in a statement.
Tom Januszewski, VICE PRESIDENT of Global Business Development at AP, said, “We are excited to take advantage of AP’s scale and speed to load context into online conversations, which can be simple to the facts. “
(Report via Sheila Dang; edited via Howard Goller)