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Twitter is further expanding its community moderation program, Birdwatch, to all US users beginning today, the company announced.
Birdwatch, first announced in 2021, is one of Twitter’s attempts to curb misinformation on its platform by inviting users to contribute to the fact checking process. The program allows a small group of Twitter users to add notes to potentially misleading tweets; the notes that are voted as helpful appear as context for the public to see. Birdwatch has been slowly expanding — now, helpful notes will be visible to all US users, though not everyone will be able to add context or rank other contributions.
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Birdwatch notes only appear on tweets if they’re deemed helpful by…
