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Misinformation Warning Labels: Twitter's Soft Moderation Effects on COVID-19 Vaccine Belief Echoes Background

  • Twitter’s internal systems and teams started monitoring COVID-19 related tweets containing misinformation in 2020
  • Originally started out targeting COVID-19 tweets but expanded to election fraud
  • Previous studies have concluded that the warnings backfire and cause more commotion due to mockery and users do not always agree with the labels
  • Soft moderation prevents tweets from being removed completely while still giving users a heads up about the misleading content of the tweet

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Updated 2021-04-29

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