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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It is an approach the company has been taking more frequently recently, in an attempt to improve “platform health” without facing accusations of censorship.
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Twitter is trying to stop people from sharing articles they have not read, in an experiment the company hopes will “promote informed discussion” on social media.
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We’re trying to encourage people to rethink their behaviour and rethink their language before posting because they often are in the heat of the moment and they might say something they regret
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A 2016 study from computer scientists at Columbia University and Microsoft found that 59% of links posted on Twitter are never clicked.