The company does not expect to need additional staff for the undertaking, Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley said on Saturday. Twitter telegraphed in May that its new policy of adding fact-checking labels to disputed or misleading coronavirus information would be expanded to other topics. This week, Twitter defended one of these employees after he was blasted as politically biased by Trump and his supporters over 2017 tweets. Twitter’s content review operation is small relative to its peers, with about 1,500 people. From January to June last year, Twitter said the company took actions on 1,254,226 accounts for violating its content rules.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 30, 2020 22:18 UTC