Twitter Rolls Out Aliases for Its Birdwatch Pilot

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“A little birdie told me.” If you are that little birdie and you did the telling via Twitter’s Birdwatch pilot of a community-driven approach to combating misinformation on the social network, you can now keep your name out of it—your Twitter handle, that is.

Twitter said in a tweet that users who are part of Birdwatch can now use aliases, which they can obtain here, where they will be given five randomized alias options to choose from.

????Introducing Birdwatch aliases!???? We want everyone to feel comfortable contributing to Birdwatch, and aliases let you write and rate notes without sharing your Twitter username.

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Twitter Rolls Out Aliases for Its Birdwatch Pilot

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