Twitter will now show labels on tweets with reduced visibility – TechCrunch

Twitter said today that it will add labels to tweets that have been flagged by the company to reduce their visibility. Elon Musk & Co. touted this as a “freedom of speech, not reach” move. Last week, the social media company first made the announcement about visibility saying that the label provides more transparency into the company’s process for reducing the reach of hateful tweets. “Restricting the reach of Tweets helps reduce binary ‘leave up versus take down’ content moderation decisions and supports our freedom of speech vs freedom of reach approach,” the company said at that time. “However, like other social platforms, we have not historically been transparent when we’ve taken this action.” Twitter said that labels will be shown to both authors and viewers. Usually, these tweets will show text such as “Visibility limited: this Tweet may violate Twitter’s rules against Hateful Conduct.” Image Credits: Twitter Twitter’s enforcement policy says that tweets with such labels will not show up in search results, recommendations or timelines — those tweets will be hidden in both the “For You” and “Following timelines. Additionally, there will be no ads placed adjacent to posts with reduced visibility. The company admitted that there might
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