Apparently this worked and reduced the sharing of misinfo by 20%.

Twitter has tried to make people stop for just one second and think about what they’re endorsing by over-emphasizing the quote tweet, and asking you (very passive-aggressively) if you’d “like to read the article first?” before retweeting its message. Okay, that could help maybe 5 percent of readers. But the bulk have …
“The truth is paywalled but the lies are free.”
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Michelle Legro
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Nov 13, 2020
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Apparently this worked and reduced the sharing of misinfo by 20%. Or at least that's what Will says:
https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1327000331532767233?s=20
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Written by Michelle Legro3.2K Followers
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Deputy Editor, GEN. Previously an editor for Topic, Longreads, The New Republic, and Lapham’s Quarterly. gen.medium.com
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