Does Birdwatch work?
Summary
Twitter launched a project called Birdwatch which allows some form of community governance: Some eligible users can volunteer to label misinformation when they see it on Twitter. Twitter makes their notes public on a weekly basis. Using this data we want to examine the success of Birdwatch in terms of addressing the following issues:
Community governance and trustworthiness of information on Twitter
Reduction of misinformation
Approach
Our study aims to explore various prosocial governance mechanisms and their effectiveness and find out if replicating community governance for other social media platforms is possible
Funding
This research project is funded by Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy.
Publications
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Researchers
Director of SMGI
Leah Kazar
Fellow at Tobin Center for Economic Policy
SMGI Research Network, Co-Director, Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Alice Yang
Fellow at Tobin Center for Economic Policy