There has been long talk about false news and how to treat it and potentially cut its spread. With social networks as the main way for people to report there are who want to take it very seriously and Twitter in one of them according to certain functions that a small group testers are testing.

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It quickly sums up a function to mark certain tweets and links as false or abusive information, a function that the testers themselves assure that it is still at a very early stage and do not expect qeu to be one of the main functions of Twitter.

Twitter wants to fight false information

With Twitter wanting to offer itself as a site from which to obtain information of priority form it is very normal that they want to make sure to be able to assure information of quality . The problem in these cases is how false information is located and what consequences it would have.

In the part of Twitter they want some part of control by the users, to which a little of Artificial Intelligence and a database of news to build would serve much. What happens with false tweets and information is another thing but it can happen from a warning, disappearance under a button or total disappearance, a very complicated process.