In a move to curb fake news and disinformation, Twitter has now announced a significant crisis disinformation policy for its platform. The new policy comes as a way to detect misleading tweets, which contain false information, accusations or statements, and issue a warning to them so that they are not circulated. Check out the details below to find out how it works.

Twitter's head of security and privacy, Yoel Roth, announced the policy via a recent blog post. In the blog post, Twitter described crises as "situations where there is a widespread threat to life, physical safety, health, or basic livelihoods." So, if a tweet violates the new policy, Twitter will display a warning for that tweet and disable like, retweet and share features for it.

According to Twitter, the team behind the development of the new policy has been working with various global experts and human rights organizations to develop the crisis misinformation framework since last year. Using the framework, Twitter will now verify the content of tweets from multiple credible and publicly available sources such as conflict monitoring groups, open source investigators, humanitarian organizations and more.

If a tweet from a high-profile account, a state media account, or an official government account is found to contain misleading or false information, Twitter will take necessary action under its new policy. It will display a new warning for the tweet for violating "Twitter's rules for sharing false or misleading information that could harm crisis-affected populations." You can check out the preview of the alert in the main image.