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Twitter launches crowd-sourced fact-checking project with ‘helpfulness score’

Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Comments Off on Twitter launches crowd-sourced fact-checking project with ‘helpfulness score’

Twitter said it wants both experts and non-experts to write Birdwatch notes. It cited Wikipedia as a site that thrives with non-expert contributions.

      
Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
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