Twitter Announces Birdwatch, A ‘Community-Based’ Tool To Fight ‘Misinformation.’ What Could Go Wrong?

On January 25th, Keith Coleman — Twitter’s Vice President of Product — announced that the social media giant would be launching a “community-based approach to misinformation.”

Dubbed “Birdwatch,” the product will pilot in the United States, and will allow “people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context.”