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  * About
      + Overview
      + Challenges
      + FAQs
  * Contributing
      + Signing Up
      + Values
      + Aliases
      + Writing notes
      + Locking and unlocking the ability to write notes
      + Rating notes
      + Rating and Writing Impact
      + Diversity of perspectives
      + Notes on Twitter
      + Examples
      + Additional Review
      + Submit feedback
  * Under the Hood
      + Download data
      + Note Ranking
      + Note Ranking Code
      + Contributor Scores
      + Timeline tabs
      + Guardrails and Circuit breakers

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Birdwatch is a collaborative way to add helpful context to Tweets and
keep people better informed 

Birdwatch is a pilot program that aims to create a better-informed
world. It empowers people on Twitter to collaboratively add helpful
notes to Tweets that might be misleading.


[write]

Contributors write and rate notes

Contributors are people on Twitter, just like you, who chose to
enroll in the pilot to write and rate notes. The more people that
participate, the better the program becomes. Learn more about how
Birdwatch works.

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Only notes that people find helpful appear on a Tweet

Birdwatch doesn't work by majority rules. To identify notes that are
helpful to a wide range of people, Birdwatch ratings requires
agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their
past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings. Learn more about
how Birdwatch identifies helpful notes.

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Twitter doesn't choose what shows up, the people do

Twitter doesn't write, rate or moderate notes (unless they break the
Twitter rules.) We believe giving people a voice to make these
choices together is a fair and effective way to add information that
helps people stay better informed.

Become a Birdwatch contributor 

Sign up here

Frequently asked questions 

How does a Tweet get a note? 

Contributors can suggest a note on any Tweet. Notes are then rated
for helpfulness by other contributors. Notes are only shown on Tweets
if they are rated helpful by enough people from different
perspectives. See how Birdwatch defines and uses differences of
perspectives here.

How does Birdwatch prevent abuse? 

Birdwatch works differently than the rest of Twitter. It is not a
popularity contest. It aims to find notes that many people from
different points of view will find helpful. It takes into account not
only how many ratings a note has received, but also whether people
who rated it helpful seem to come from different perspectives.
Because notes need to genuinely be found helpful by people who tend
to disagree, Birdwatch is more likely to identify notes that many
people find helpful. Read the full details of how this works.

Notes are also subject to Twitter rules and can be reported.

Can regular people really be trusted to do this? 

We believe regular people can valuably contribute to identifying and
adding helpful context to potentially misleading information. Many of
the internet's existing collaborative sites thrive with the help of
non-expert contributions -- Wikipedia, for example -- and, while it's
not a cure-all, research has shown the potential of incorporating
crowdsourced based approaches as part of a broader toolkit to address
misleading information on the internet, for example:

  * Allen, Arechar, Pennycook, and Rand 2021
  * Resnick, Alfayez, Im, and Gilbert 2021
  * Bhuiyan, Zhang, Sehat, and Mitra 2020
  * Kim and Walker 2020

In our pilot test of Birdwatch, we evaluated notes that Birdwatch
would show on Tweets, and have found:

  * The majority of people surveyed on Twitter found Birdwatch notes
    helpful.
  * People in surveys were 20-40% less likely to agree with the
    substance of a potentially misleading Tweet after reading the
    note about it, compared to those who saw a Tweet without a note.
  * Most notes have been rated highly on accuracy by professional
    reviewers; it has been rare to find a note that reviewers agree
    is inaccurate.

The people on Twitter span a wide gamut of backgrounds and
experiences, and we believe that, working together, they can help
create a better-informed world.

I have a note on my Tweet. What can I do? 

As a Tweet author, if you disagree that a Birdwatch note provides
important context about your Tweet, you can request additional review
.

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