Twitter announces new effort to tackle the spread of fake news. Still in prototype phase, social media giant Twitter is exploring adding a new feature that would let users flag fake news. Twitter is also aware that as well as the emergence of a market for fake accounts, extremists are using the site as a recruiting platform. The use of Twitter by trolls to threaten women and minorities is also a problem that the social media site is keen to wipe out. Third-party firm Twitter Audit found that 41pc of Trump’s followers were bots or fake accounts compared to 34pc of Hillary Clinton’s.