Twitter to impose misinformation limits ahead of US election

Twitter will restrict political candidates from declaring premature victory, make it tougher for users to spread misinformation and block calls for violence on its platform in the days leading up to and following the United States election on November 3. In a statement on Friday, the social media platform said it would remove tweets that encourage violence or call for people to interfere with voting results. It will also label tweets that falsely claim a candidate has won, redirecting users to its official US election results page instead. “To determine the results of an election in the US, 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,” the company’s statement reads. Starting from October 20, users who want to retweet posts that contain misinformation will see a prompt pointing them to credible information about the topic befure they are able to retweet it, as well. The step is designed to make people pause and think, the company said, potentially slowing retweets of misleading information that are often a problem on the platform and have raised concerns ahead of the hotly contested presidential vote. style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">