Twitter aims to limit people sharing articles they have not read | Twitter | The Guardian - 1 views
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“Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting” – the fake news website the Science Post has racked up a healthy 127,000 shares for the article which is almost entirely lorem ipsum filler text.
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Twitter’s solution is not to ban such retweets, but to inject “friction” into the process, in order to try to nudge some users into rethinking their actions on the social network.
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In May, the company began experimenting with asking users to “revise” their replies if they were about to send tweets with “harmful language” to other people.
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