For Twitter users on Android phones sharing news articles they haven’t clicked on goes to become a touch harder. Twitter announced Wednesday: “Sharing a piece of writing can spark conversation, so you’ll want to read it before you tweet it. to assist promote informed discussion, we’re testing a replacement prompt on Android – once you retweet a piece of writing that you simply haven’t opened on Twitter, we may ask if you want to open it first.”
There is no current timeline for an expansion of the function to other platforms yet, Twitter said.
The new function is a component of Twitter’s larger effort to combat misinformation. Last month, the corporate it might warn users when a tweet contains disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
In one among the foremost notorious moves, Twitter decided to use the rule to President Donald Trump’s tweets fortnight ago by fact-checking and labeling a number of his posts as misleading.
More recently, the social media company flagged a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FL., Friday as “glorifying violence” after he asked if “Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those within the Middle East?”
