Twitter said that it is working towards improving the process of how it labels tweets containing incorrect information about 5G or the coronavirus after it incorrectly labelled unrelated tweets with a COVID-19 fact check. “In the last few weeks, you may have seen Tweets with labels linking to additional info about COVID-19. Not all of those Tweets had potentially misleading content associating COVID-19 and 5G. We apologize for any confusion and we're working to improve our labeling process,” the company said. Twitter also said that it is “building new automated capabilities to apply these labels to Tweets we think could be relevant”. Last week, a number of tweets, particularly containing the phrase “oxygen” and “frequency” started getting labelled with a COVID-19 fact check, showing how inconsistent, and often inaccurate automated content moderation practices can be. The company ended up incorrectly…
