{"id":35128,"date":"2022-02-25T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35128"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:09:19","slug":"twitter-needs-a-retraction-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/twitter-needs-a-retraction-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Needs a Retraction Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trumwill\/status\/1496867359696781316\">Will Truman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/twitter-retraction\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trumwill\/status\/1496867359696781316\"><p>I think the concerns about an edit button are overblown, but there would be very little downside to Twitter having a &ldquo;retraction&rdquo; option, wherein the tweet is left up but with a strikethrough indicating it is not or is no longer valid.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to combat misinformation, make it easy for people to retract inaccurate information they have relayed.<\/p>\n<p>Right now it&rsquo;s kind of a choice of deleting it and causing confusion, or leaving it up and potentially misinforming people who don&rsquo;t see the update.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think strikethrough plus a link to a replacement tweet would be good.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/twitter-company-email-addresses-why-its-breakingmytwitter\/\">Twitter Company Email Addresses Why It&rsquo;s #BreakingMyTwitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Truman (via Nick Heer): I think the concerns about an edit button are overblown, but there would be very little downside to Twitter having a &ldquo;retraction&rdquo; option, wherein the tweet is left up but with a strikethrough indicating it is not or is no longer valid. If you want to combat misinformation, make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-25T21:09:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"93d59c17-eab4-4a19-9623-88a121f74bb5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-25T21:09:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ak9WcF-q0ShmWI4ihIfdLtQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[994,49,96],"class_list":["post-35128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35129,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35128\/revisions\/35129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}