This past Thursday, Twitter (TWTR  ) announced the social media platform has updated its misinformation policy to include measures that hide false information during a crisis.

According to Twitter, it will now put warnings on potentially false or misleading tweets, including misinformation from some of the most popular, established, or renowned accounts. Though users will still be able to see the tweets, there will still be warning labels that inform the users regarding the flagged misinformation.

Twitter said that, in order for tweets to be coined as "misleading," it needs to have "verification from multiple credible, publicly available sources, including evidence from conflict monitoring groups, humanitarian organizations, open-source investigators, journalists, and more."

One of the topics that Twitter claims that it will no longer endorse is the Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially Russian propaganda or fake accounts that are associated with Russian forces.

"Content moderation is more than just leaving up or taking down content," said Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of safety and integrity, in a statement. "We've expanded the range of actions we may take to ensure they're proportionate to the severity of the potential harm."



This attempt at controlling potential misinformation, however, does not sit well with Tesla (TSLA  ) CEO Elon Musk, who recently made a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. Musk remains skeptical of Twitter's attempts to control misinformation, stating that he fully advocates for freedom of speech regardless of what is being said.



Although some remain skeptical about Twitter's new monitoring procedures, other sources welcome the attempts with an open mind. Such sources include Ukrainian cybersecurity official, Victor Zhora, who insists that it is the responsibility of the community to "find proper approaches to prevent the sowing of misinformation across social networks" on a worldwide scale.



Regardless of the stance that Twitter is choosing to take, as compared to other social networks and platforms (such as Telegram), it is going for a much more direct way of combating any perceived threats or issues of verifiable information.

Ever since the war on Ukraine in particular, social media networks such as Facebook (FB  ) and Instagram have chosen to include some information while purposely excluding others in popular user searches or recommendations.



According to Emerson Brooking, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, "This is a conflict that has played out on the internet, and one that has driven extraordinarily rapid changes in tech policy."