The White House on Wednesday retracted a tweet to which Twitter had added context that contextualized the range of information pushed by Joe Biden’s communications service during the US election campaign. “The increase in senior pensions is the largest in the last 10 years thanks to President Joe Biden”.tweeted the official page of the White House.
But a note was added stating that pensions are indexed to the rate of inflation, according to a 1972 law signed into law by Richard Nixon (a Republican president). The original tweet, which has since been deleted, “It wasn’t complete”and was lacking “context”the press secretary of the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, recognized.
Context notes are written by independent contributors to Twitter’s Birdwatch program and are supported by relevant posts if enough people with differing opinions consider them. “useful”. “The algorithm takes into account not only how many reviewers find the rating useful or not, but also whether the people who rated it have different views.”Twitter explained in a statement on October 6, when the Californian company finally launched the program in the United States.
Make Twitter “The Nation’s Most Trusted News Source”
“Community rating system is great”responded Elon Musk, the new owner of the social network, in response to a user who shared a screenshot of the deleted tweet with the post. “Our goal is to make Twitter the most trusted source of information on Earth, regardless of political affiliation.”he added.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief bought the influential platform last Thursday after six months of twists and turns between the multibillionaire and many users, group executives (now fired) and NGOs. Elon Musk advocates less strict content moderation than currently to promote more freedom of expression. The American right, which considers itself censored on major social networks, approves of this vision. But its critics say the limits set by the regulations, which specifically prohibit harassment, hate speech and misinformation, allow for a healthy debate.
Source: Le Figaro
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