Twitter partners with The Associated Press & Reuters
August 4, 2021 9:42
Twitter has announced a partnership with The Associated Press and Reuters which aims to bring more context to conversations on Twitter.
The announcement:
We’re excited to share that Twitter is collaborating with The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand our efforts to identify and elevate credible information on Twitter.
We are committed to making sure that when people come to Twitter to see what’s happening, they are able to easily find reliable information. Twitter will be able to expand the scale and increase the speed of our efforts to provide timely, authoritative context across the wide range of global topics and conversations that happen on Twitter every day.
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