The social media company said on Thursday Twitter plans to make more data available to outside researchers who study online misinformation and censorship, the social media company for learned on Thursday, part of what they say is an effort to increase transparency on the platform.
The company will also open an application process to allow more people working in academia, civil society and journalism to join the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium, a group Twitter was conceived in experimental mode earlier this year and has access to the dataset.
While researchers have studied the flow of harmful content on society For years, they often did so without direct involvement from the social media companies.
In a press conference with reporters, Twitter said it hopes the data will lead to new types of research into how efforts to combat misinformation online work.
Twitter has shared a dataset with researchers about coordinated efforts backed by foreign governments to manipulate information on Twitter.
Company speak it now plans to share information about other areas of content moderation, such as tweets that have been labeled as potentially misleading.
Earlier this week, Twitter announced expands how it recommends posts from accounts the user doesn’t follow. Twitter is looking to build tools for users to control and provide feedback on that content.
“With millions of people signing up for Twitter every day, we want to make it easier for people to connect with the accounts and Topics they care about,” Twitter said in a statement. blog post.
To expand, Twitter is testing an “X” tool that can be used to remove suggested tweets that users don’t want to see on their timeline.
Twitter’s Rivals Meta Platform also disclosure in July, they are planning to double the share of recommended content filling user feeds Facebook and Instagram by the end of 2023.
