'Bird watching' unit is a pioneering test of Twitter to combat disinformation

The world's most popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter, has announced the launch of a new unit called "Bird Watching", which has been described as a "pioneering experience". The report, published on the specialized technical website "Ingadget", indicated that the "Bird Watching" unit is interested in combating misinformation.

Bird watching remains an experimental tool, subject to a major regulatory effort against all disinformation online.

In the screenshots, social media advisor Matt Navarra listed all the features of "bird watching" technology, how this tool can be operated, and how anyone could use mute, blocking and reporting of disinformation techniques.

The official said that this technology aims to "explore a number of ways to tackle misinformation, provide more contexts for Twitter's tweets, and it will test many different ways to tackle this crisis."