Twitter's 'Heart Is In The Right Place' In Fighting Misinformation, Says Andy Ihnatko

gettyimages-876651544_custom-876a12985aa500de7728e1116d38861987b6841e.jpg — The good news for Twitter is tempered by a loss of about 1 million monthly active users in the U.S. compared to last quarter.

Hannah Uebele is a producer for Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and previously worked as associate producer for Boston Public Radio. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in English and Environmental Studies. She's a proud Delawarean but has found herself saying "wicked" more and more often, so the Bostonian metamorphosis is well underway.Contact: hannah_uebele@wgbh.org

February 21, 2020

Updated July 03, 2023

Tech writer Andy Ihnatko joined Boston Public Radio on Friday to speak about Twitter's new methods of fighting misinformation spread by public figures.

"One of the ideas they're playing with is for high-profile accounts, if there is a falsehood in a tweet, it will be posted but with a big inserted red tag that says this statement is untrue," Ihnatko said. "I believe that Twitter's heart is in the right place."

Twitter has previously announced that they're instituting a ban on altered and doctored videos, like deep fakes, Ihnatko added. These new Twitter regulations differ strongly from Facebook's apathy, he noted.

"Facebook simply doesn't care," he said. "Institutionally, I believe that Facebook doesn't care about anything but the bottom line in the business."