Twitter plans clampdown on mail-in voting misinformation amid friction with Trump
Source: Politico
Twitter said Wednesday it plans to expand its rules against misleading information about mail-in ballots and early voting, a move that could have major implications for the social media platform’s handling of tweets by President Donald Trump and his allies.
The company told POLITICO it’s exploring ways to broaden its policies against misinformation about mail-in voting to cover a wider array of posts, including those that contain more general mischaracterizations about the process. And the platform, which like other major social media companies has helped its users register to vote in past U.S. elections, said it plans to focus its registration efforts for 2020 on mail-in and early voting.
The planned policy change, the details for which are still being ironed out, comes as Republicans have clashed with Twitter over its handling of posts by the president containing unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting. Trump and his allies have used the site to stoke fears that voting by mail will result in widespread voter fraud. Twitter has placed fact-checking labels on a number of the posts, which it said ran afoul of its rules on civic integrity.
“Twitter is working hard to increase informed participation in democratic processes around the world,” Twitter's vice president of public policy for the Americas, Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, said in a statement. “Ahead of the 2020 US Election, we're focused on empowering every eligible person to register and vote through partnerships, tools and new policies that emphasize accurate information about all available options to vote, including by mail and early voting."
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/twitter-fights-mail-in-voting-misinformation-394459
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