Twitter's answer to election misinformation: Make it harder to retweet

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Twitter announced on Friday — less than 30 days ahead of the US election — that it’s enacting a series of significant changes in order to make it harder to spread election misinformation on its platform. It’s one of the most aggressive series of actions any social media company has taken yet to stop the spread of misinformation on their platforms.

The changes include prompting people not to retweet without adding their own commentary, turning off automatic recommendations for other people’s tweets, and adding more context to its Trending section. Twitter will also start putting more warning labels on misleading tweets by US politicians and accounts with more than 100,000 followers, and block users from “liking” or replying to those tweets. And if a politician declares premature victory before it’s verified by independent sources, Twitter will label the tweet and direct users to its voter information page.




https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/9/21509609/twitters-election-facebook-policies-misinformation-trump

[hedda_foil]

1. That's an encouraging sign.

[crickets]

2. Well, that's something. Good for Twitter.

And at least they're bothering to put it in force before the election.