Twitter expands research group to study content moderation

FILE PHOTO: A promoted tweet on China's Suzhou city is displayed on a mobile phone near a Twitter logo, in this illustration picture taken September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc plans to provide more data to external researchers who study online misinformation and moderation, the social media company said Thursday, part of what it says is an effort to increase transparency on the platform.

The company will also open an application process to allow more people working in academia, civil society and journalism to join the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium, a group that Twitter formed in pilot mode earlier this year and has access to the datasets.