Twitter debuts new 'crisis misinformation policy'

Twitter rolled out a new global "crisis misinformation policy" on Thursday that the company says will combat misinformation during emergencies and other crisis situations.

In a blog post, Twitter said it will censor posts that spread misinformation by placing a warning notice in front of tweets from high profile accounts that violate the policy. The company aims to slow the spread of "the most visible, misleading content, particularly that which could lead to severe harms."

Judgements on which content is true or false will be made with "verification from multiple credible, publicly available sources," including journalists, non-governmental watchdog groups, and other conflict monitoring groups.