Twitter experimenting with warnings about misleading Tweets from politicians

I’m sure it’ll come as no surprise that there’s a lot of inaccurate information on Twitter. And Twitter is experimenting with a way to identify what it calls harmfully misleading tweets from politicians and other prominent individuals. NBC News got hold of a leaked demo of the experimental feature which Twitter has acknowledged as something that they are looking into. Based on reports from fact checkers, journalists and other users. It feature the bright orange warning that the tweet may be harmfully misleading.

NBC article with examples of tweets and warnings

CNET article about the warning messages