Finally, the world is awakening to and is realising the value of quality and corroborated content. Recently, we had seen that a lot of fake news was doing the rounds and consequently, people were being misled into making ill-informed choices and decisions. This problem has been around for a while, but the implications have intensified now.
Recently, there was a news update that Twitter will be partnering with a third party to filter and check the quality of content that transpires through the portal. Facebook and Google have already been using similar mechanisms to police the content that goes through them. With the enormous advent of social media, the information dissipation through these websites is becoming very difficult to be taken account of. The authenticity and reliability of any kind of information that comes in through social media is intrinsically becoming doubtful.
The users have started flagging the content that appears to be misleading, and this has prompted big names in this industry to take charge of this situation in a better and well-informed manner.
In fact, Twitter has adopted this approach in the light of unwarranted Coronavirus information, but they plan to enhance the ambit of content checking to more extensive subjects.
According to reports, the fact-checking of the posted content is subjective, and the purview is not extended to everything. Personal views, some political views are spared from fact-checking. But, as the situation is panning out, it can be expected that a lot of topics will come under the scanner when it comes to fact-checking.
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