https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2020/06/10/twitter-test-guilts-you-retweeting-unread-articles/

Twitter today revealed it’s testing a feature that would essentially ask the reader if they’d like to read an article before they actually retweet it. It’s doing this as part of a campaign to get people to actually talk about the stuff they retweet — I know, the horror.

The news comes via a tweet from Twitter support, which reveals the prompt is running for Android. It’ll ask the user about reading the article specifically if they haven’t opened it from the link in the tweet. Presumably there’s no way Twitter would know whether you’ve read it elsewhere, though given how much information is available on social media nowadays, it wouldn’t surprise me if it somehow knew anyway. I admit, I find the idea of Twitter essentially guilting its users for not reading what they’re about to retweet very amusing.