However, the company admits that there might be mistakes in labeling these tweets, so authors can submit feedback.
Since he bought Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk has made several changes and many users do not approve of them.
The most recent change Mr. Musk made was removing the Blue verification tick from accounts that were not subscribed to Twitter Blue.
Mr Musk is demanding an $8 payment for the blue tick which defeats the its major purpose.
Originally, the blue tick was given to verify that an account belongs to a particular prominent person to avoid parody.
However, with Musk’s Twitter Blue, anyone can be verified and many celebrities did not subscribe to this.
After receiving backlash for removing the blue tick, Mr. Musk returned them to accounts with over 1 million followers.
However, it shows on their profiles that they subscribed to Twitter Blue which many swore they did not.
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Barely 72 hours later and Mr. Musk is back with a new change and this time he wants to start labeling tweets.
Label For Tweets
Twitter says it will add labels to tweets that have been flagged by the company to reduce their visibility.
According to the social network, this is a “freedom of speech, not reach” move.
Last week, the social media company spoke about visibility saying that the label provides more transparency into the company’s process for reducing the reach of hateful tweets.
“Restricting the reach of Tweets helps reduce binary ‘leave up versus take down’ content moderation decisions and supports our freedom of speech vs freedom of reach approach,” the company said.
“However, like other social platforms, we have not historically been transparent when we’ve taken this action,” it adds.
Twitter now says that labels will be shown to both authors and viewers.
Usually, these tweets will show text such as “Visibility limited: this Tweet may violate Twitter’s rules against Hateful Conduct”.
Twitter’s enforcement policy says that tweets with such labels will not show up in search results, recommendations, or timelines.
Rather, those tweets will be hidden in both the “For You” and “Following timelines. Additionally, there will be no ads placed adjacent to posts with reduced visibility.
However, the company admits that there might be mistakes in labeling these tweets.
As a result, authors are given the opportunity to submit feedback.
Twitter notes that this action “does not guarantee you will receive a response or that your Tweet’s reach will be restored”.
Twitter states that the new visibility policy will be more granular as it will be applied at the tweet level and not the account level.
