bnewbold
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1 year ago Posts contain timestamp metadata, both from the original author (who can supply any timestamp) and aggregators (who might be more trusted). Clients could definitely visually indicate posts which are being re-distributed after significant time has passed.
There is a separate conversation around things like "community notes" as additional context on a post. The current labeling proposal doesn't support that use case (supplying extra context about why the label is applied). "Community notes" or moderation-related annotations seem like an important and useful feature, but possible a separate or additional feature, not a direct extension of labels.
So, I don't have a pithy way of describing this. But a common source of misinfo, or even just user confusion, is when someone reposts an old post that was true then, but when read by readers now takes on a radically different meaning. Imagine, hypothetically, that in the future there is a Queen of England, who is alive. Someone reskeets a skeet saying "the queen is dead" coming from BBC news -- and it's easy to miss the date on the bottom.
That's why some sites, for example, burn in a "Posted in YEAR" onto the link preview for things like NY Times articles to prevent this concern.
Is there a way to create some sort of label that either a) causes the post to be marked that way, or b) labels it with something like "breaking news but only until" with a Time-to-Live on it?
This could also be useful for 3rd party Labeling Services to mark commonly-misused-for-misinfo posts.