Users Hacks Twitter's New Hacking Label

American microblogging and social networking service, Twitter hacking label has been manipulated as tweeter users have found an easy way to hack a URL together to make the label appear on any tweet.

Senior Editor at The Verge, Tom Warren made this know after trying some of the tricks to displace the hack label on his Twitter post.

AllNews had earlier reported that Twitter has added a new warning label to alert users against tweets that might have been obtained from hacking, and sparked controversy online. This new label appears on some news stories that Twitter believes are based on hacks and leaked documents.

The warning label began to appear after a post by The Grayson allegedly hacked and leaked resources informing the public that the BBC and Reuters participated in a program the United Kingdom government created to weaken the influence of Russia.

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If you share the URL of this particular story, it will generate a warning. But Twitter also displays the warning if you trick it into doing so by using a specially crafted link to a genuine URL combined with a flagged one. This tricks Twitter's card-based system into accidentally flagging tweets with this new warning.

? https://t.co/YfzHLKh4Ya

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 24, 2021

This new warning trick works on both web and Twitter's mobile apps for iOS and Andriod and it appears to crash the Andriod version if you attempt to like a tweet that includes this new label.

Also, the new controversial hacked material warning came after the company was criticised for blocking links to New York Post stories about Biden's son. Twitter reversed its decision to block links and put a policy in place to use these warning labels instead.

We expect to receive feedback from Twitter on when the company will fix the controversial hacked label.