Twitter to improve ‘5G coronavirus’ fact-check after unrelated tweets flagged

Team Udayavani, Jun 29, 2020, 5:56 PM IST

Twitter has apologised for adding the fact-checking label to some posts that mentioned 5G and coronavirus but weren’t falsely linking the two. Twitter promised it would improve the process.

Twitter said it is now working on to improve its algorithms how it labels tweets with problematic 5G or coronavirus content after several users reported their unrelated tweets are being flagged with a 5G and coronavirus fact-check label.

Twitter support tweeted, “In the last few weeks, you may have seen Tweets with labels linking to additional info about COVID-19. Not all of those Tweets had potentially misleading content associating COVID-19 and 5G. We apologize for any confusion and we’re working to improve our labeling process”

It began fact-checking tweets that linked 5G and the pandemic earlier this month, by adding a Covid-19 information label which links to a Twitter moment titled, “No, 5G isn’t causing coronavirus”