Social-Media
Twitter extends the guidelines on propaganda to include early voting outcomes
On Thursday, Twitter released a more detailed series of guidelines to tackle disinformation ahead of the November US election. Starting on 17 September, the website would mark or delete tweets concerning election fraud or early election results, identifying those groups as especially likely to cause immediate harm.
The debate on Twitter is never more critical than it was during the elections, Twitter said in a blog post on the new rules. Facebook is where users come to learn directly from elected officials and candidates for office, where they come to get breaking news, and ultimately, it is an important source of knowledge about when and how to vote in elections.
Twitter 's latest guidelines are sure to put the website into conflict with President Trump. In the last three months, Trump has sent several tweets containing false or inaccurate comments about the November polls and the voting process. Within this new regulation, misleading vote fraud messages, voting returns, and electoral rigging will be either properly reviewed or withdrawn.
The Trump administration has already squared off Twitter by introducing the President's tweets-checks.
After Twitter labelled a misleading tweet about mail-in voting over the summer, Trump signed an executive order aimed at restoring back protections to social media sites through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The Federal Communications Commission was ordered to reinterpret the key internet legislation earlier this year, but has yet to vote on the request.
Facebook has announced that it would sign the candidate's posts falsely proclaiming victory. They said that they would not allow new campaign advertisements a week before the November elections, and would extend their function to mark posts that would discourage the vote. Twitter forbade all campaign advertisements last year.
