Twitter expands crowdsourced fact check experiment 'Birdwatch'


FILE PHOTO A Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco California U.S. January 11 2021. REUTERSStephen Lam

FILE PHOTO: A Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program by making notes on potentially misleading tweets visible to more people on Twitter, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.

The social networking site launched the project called Birdwatch last year as a novel experiment that asked Twitter users to identify misleading tweets and write notes to provide information debunking the content, which would then be appended to the original tweet.

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