According to the company, this option can be selected when they believe the medium itself may be misleading, regardless of which tweet it appears in.
Published Date – Wed, 5/31/23 at 10:10am
New Delhi: Twitter, run by Elon Musk, is testing a new feature — “media annotations” — that will make it easier to identify potentially misleading media. The company is experimenting with media community annotations, which will leverage the site’s crowdsourced fact-checking to provide valuable insights about specific photos and video clips.
“From AI-generated images to manipulated video, misleading media is common. Today, we’re piloting a feature that puts a superpower in the hands of contributors: media annotations,” Twitter’s Community Annotations tweeted Tuesday.
“Annotations attached to images will automatically appear on recent and future matching images,” it added.
Users will see a new option on certain Tweets to label their note “About Image.”
According to the company, this option can be selected when they believe the medium itself may be misleading, regardless of which tweet it appears in.
Additionally, the microblogging platform said, “Raters and readers will see the author’s annotations marked ‘about the image’ slightly differently, so everyone is clear that they should be interpreted as about the media, rather than a specific tweet.” Can help identify situations where annotations may not apply to a particular Tweet”.
Currently, the feature supports single-image tweets, and the company is working to expand it to “videos” and “multi-image/video tweets.”
Additionally, Twitter acknowledged that it will take some time to perfect its image matching.
“It’s currently designed to err on the side of precision when matching images, meaning it may not match every image that looks like you matched. We’ll be working on tweaking this to increase coverage while avoiding false matches ,” the company said.
