Australian Twitter users will be allowed to report potentially misleading content as part of a new experiment in monitoring misinformation on the platform. The option to report misleading content is being trialled in three countries – the US, South Korea, and Australia – for about a month. The trial will allow Twitter to gather data and assess whether user reporting can usefully inform attempts to identify and curb misinformation in real time. Twitter also hopes it will be able to analyse the reported data to better understand the origins of misinformation, identify it early, and...