Twitter adds new labels, warnings to combat Covid-related misinformation

In order to deal with misinformation and provide more transparency in content on the platform, Twitter introduced new labels and warning messages that will provide additional context and information on some tweets that contain disputed or misleading information related to Covid-19.

The three broad categories the company will look at are misleading information, disputed claims and unverified claims.

In March, the microblogging platform adopted a new set of guidelines to address content that goes “against guidance on Covid-19 from authoritative sources of global and local public health information”.

Twitter’s internal teams and trusted partners will work to identify content likely