Journalists curbed by Twitter policy on fact-checking tools

Pen America’s Shannon Jankowski in The Hill, May 23, 2023, writes that journalists will be handicapped during the upcoming presidential elections in fighting online lies now that Twitter is charging exorbitant prices to access API necessary to operate the fact-checking tools Bot Sentinel, Botometer and Hoaxy. These tools are necessary to avoid passing on false information and debunking fake stories.