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Twitter is considering giving users the ability to flag tweets as fake news, according to a report on Thursday.

Sources told the Washington Post that Twitter is prototyping a feature that lets users flag tweets with "misleading, false or harmful information" and "it could look like a tiny tab appearing in a drop-down menu alongside tweets."

Social media platforms have faced pressure to better control or flag misleading or incorrect stories that can spread quickly over online platforms without methods to verify their integrity. Twitter has also faced an influx of "bots," which are automated users that can rapidly share false information.

Other social media groups like Facebook have found it difficult to find a balance between protecting free speech and removing hateful and harmful content.

Twitter is "moving slowly" on the function, the report says, because "there are concerns that people could use the new button to game the system, the way other aspects of Twitter have been manipulated."

The company didn't deny that it is working on a fake news button, according to the report. "There are no current plans to launch any type of product along these lines," Twitter spokeswoman Emily Horne told the Post.

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Twitter devising a tool to flag 'fake news': Report - Washington Examiner