{"id":11695,"date":"2023-09-27T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/x-twitter-scraps-feature-letting-users-report-misleading-information\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:37:15","slug":"x-twitter-scraps-feature-letting-users-report-misleading-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/x-twitter-scraps-feature-letting-users-report-misleading-information\/","title":{"rendered":"X\/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is \u2018extremely concerning\u2019 ahead of Australia\u2019s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum<\/p>\n<p>X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has removed the ability for people to report a tweet for containing misleading information just weeks before a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, users on X in countries including the US, Australia and South Korea had been able to flag tweets that they believed contained misleading information for review by staff at the company \u2013 separate to other processes the company has in place to report abuse or hate speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/27\/xtwitter-scraps-function-letting-users-report-misleading-information\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b472045c3d4852a1206dcd7fbec3914c599a944c\/0_0_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=556a03d231259dc245885ba23228227f\" title=\"X\/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information\" \/>Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is \u2018extremely concerning\u2019 ahead of Australia\u2019s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum<br \/>\nX, the company formerly known as Twitter, has removed the ability for people to report a tweet for containing misleading information just weeks before a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament in Australia.<br \/>\nSince 2021, users on X in countries including the US, Australia and South Korea had been able to flag tweets that they believed contained misleading information for review by staff at the company \u2013 separate to other processes the company has in place to report abuse or hate speech.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is \u2018extremely concerning\u2019 ahead of Australia\u2019s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has removed the ability for people to report a tweet for containing misleading information just weeks before a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament in Australia. Since 2021, users &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/x-twitter-scraps-feature-letting-users-report-misleading-information\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">X\/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}