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Information equity matters. Former head of Curation at Twitter.
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This included helping AP and @Reuters.bsky.social check contributions: blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics...

I have no idea if that work continues.
Improving the effectiveness of product features: Supporting product experimentation and existing initiatives where additional credible context could make our work better. For example, Birdwatch will use feedback from AP and Reuters as one way to assess the quality of information elevated by Birdwatch participants.
October 21, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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I also saw its potential if complemented by a proactively-managed and adequately resourced fact checker community.

But it now seems placed in hard spot: under-resourced on community strategy and management and also positioned as a singular strategy for dealing with misinformation on the platform.
“The intention of Birdwatch was always to be a complement to, rather than a replacement for, Twitter's other misinformation methods,” says Roth. “The company fired the entire curation team, without whom misinformation enforcement can't operate, even if the policies are still on the books,” he says, referring to the former employees who would create the collections of tweets for corrections or produce the labels to let users know if something was misinformative.
October 21, 2023 at 7:16 PM