San Francisco: Micro blogging site Twitter has announced that in order to curb fake news, they will live stream news whenever a major event happens.
In a first such test, Twitter live-streamed footage from Miami’s WSVN 7 as the media outlet covered the shooting at a Florida school in which 17 people were killed on Wednesday. More than 50,000 Twitter viewers watched the live broadcast.
Twitter will partner with local and regional news outlets and select footage which would be live streamed, wrote the BuzzFeed.
“We’re continuing to work on new ways we can surface credible and relevant information to help people stay informed. By pairing live video with the conversation on Twitter, there is no faster way to see what’s happening in the world,” Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter video GM, told BuzzFeed News.
Clicking on the video will open up a stream of algorithmically chosen tweets about the event. When users click on live videos on their timelines, they will be taken to a custom timeline that “places algorithmically selected tweets about the news event next to it”.
