Over the past month or so, Twitter has increased its efforts to halt the spread of disputed and false claims on the internet. Weeks ago, it highlighted the steps it was taking by labeling certain tweets as disputed and disabling engagement mechanisms; such as retweets for problematic claims to cut out the spread of fake news concerning the US presidential elections. Now, the company is showing further warnings if one tries to like disputed tweets.

Twitter enunciated this change in a tweet from its official support account; making it clear that based on its success in stopping the spread of misleading news by encouraging quote tweets instead of retweets; it is improving on that and will now prompt users before they ‘like’ a disputed tweet as well.

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The company said: “Giving context on why a labeled Tweet is misleading under our election; COVID-19; and synthetic and manipulated media rules is vital. These prompts helped decrease Quote Tweets of misleading information by 29%; so we’re expanding them to show when you tap to like a labeled Tweet.”

This adjustment is currently visible on the website; but does not appear to be available to mobile apps on our end at the time of this writing, although that could come soon enough.

The new prompt now displays a warning before you like a tweet and encourages users to visit what it considers official news sources on disputed claims. Users can still like the tweet by clicking the heart icon at the bottom of the prompt again, but it will show up every time you react to any disputed tweet. It remains to be seen whether this move deters the public from spreading disputed claims and the ensuing fake news.

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