Business Insider International Twitter was warned by its own experts that QAnon members would attempt to join its Birdwatch fact-checking project, per a leaked internal audit.Kacper Pempel/Reuters Twitter accepted a QAnon account into a community-led fact-checking project, leaked audit says. Twitter only uncovered the “overt” account the night before the project launched, the audit says. Twitter has disputed many elements of the audit, The Washington Post reported. Twitter accepted an advocate of the QAnon conspiracy theory into its community anti-misinformation project, a leaked internal audit says. The audit, obtained by The Washington Post, says Twitter staffers only uncovered an “overt” QAnon-affiliated account the night before the launch of Birdwatch, the company’s invite-only fact-checking project. Members of the Birdwatch program have the power to vet misleading information shared on the platform and provide informative context to tweets. These notes are viewable only by a small group of US users on Twitter, but are accessible to all on a separate Birdwatch website. Twitter had been specifically warned by the company’s own experts that QAnon members would attempt to join Birdwatch, the audit says. It says this feedback “was not incorporated” into the plans for Birdwatch, and that the company found itself in a “last-minute scramble to secure the project launch.”
VIA BUSINESS INSDER. Twitter accepted QAnon account into its community anti-misinformation project, leaked internal audit says