Twitter cracks down on AI fake pictures, will add user-generated fact-check information to pictures

Shortly after a fake “explosion near the Pentagon” image went viral on the platform, Twitter announced it was expanding its user-generated fact-checking program to include images, Kim Ten reported on May 31. Called “Community Notes,” the project is user-generated and appears beneath tweets to provide more context to potentially misleading content on Twitter. Contributors will now be able to add information about images, and this information will appear under “Recent and future matching images”. Twitter Community Note users will be able to indicate whether they add context to the Tweet itself or an image within the Tweet. Currently, the feature only works with single images, though the company says it’s working on expanding it to videos and multi-image tweets.