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The warning links to this page: https://twitter.com/i/events/1265330601034256384

It's a sort of article (I didn't know Twitter had this type of format, I really like it, weirdly enough) that contains an introduction text and a 'What you need to know' paragraph, followed by fact-checking tweets from press organizations.

I know where the tweets come from, but who has written the introduction and summary paragraphs, and who has compiled those tweets and photos in that order?



According to Ars Technica [1], this page is "created and managed by our global curation team".

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/twitters-first-f...


Here’s the Twitter trends FAQ, which is where I would expect the answers to your questions to be found, yet there’s not much info on this page. Basically they say trends are determined by an algorithm, but that there are also humans in the loop.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-trending-f...


To be specific it's a Twitter Moment




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