Twitter to Flag Tweets Claiming Early Victory After Election, Remove Posts Inciting Interference

Twitter said Friday it will flag posts on its platform that prematurely claim victory in the U.S. presidential race and will remove ones meant to incite people to interfere in the election process.

Less than a month before Election Day, Twitter followed Google and Facebook in becoming the latest major internet company to put new rules in place in anticipation of possible confusion or chaos.

“People on Twitter, including candidates for office, may not claim an election win before it is authoritatively called,” Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour explained in a blog post.

“To determine the results of an election in the U.S., we require either an announcement from state election officials, or a public projection from at least two authoritative, national news outlets that make independent election calls,” they wrote.

Tweets that include early claims about the results of any contests taking place next month will be labeled as premature and refer user to the company’s official page for the elections, they added. (Read more from “Twitter to Flag Tweets Claiming Early Victory After Election, Remove Posts Inciting Interference” HERE)

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