Twitter announced on Friday, some information about its efforts effectiveness to curb the spread of disinformation about the election. Between October 27 and November 11, the company classified over 300,000 tweets for “contested and possibly misleading” content, according to News reportes.
Twitter added ''that most of his labels were applied quickly and that 74% of the people who saw those tweets saw them. After we have implemented a warning sign or message.“
Later, Twitter placed on November 4 a warning over U.S. president Donald Trump’s post, which alleged that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election, the social network has hidden the tweet behind a message warning that his tweet was disputed and might be misleading.
Noteworthy, Twitter announced its policies before the U.S. elections to include specific rules that detailed how it would handle tweets making claims about election results before they were official.
The tweets are eligible to be labeled if the account has a U.S. 2020 candidate label, including presidential candidates and campaigns, meaning the Trump and Biden campaigns will not be immune to the new policies, the firm reported. On other hand, the minimum is either 25,000 Likes or 25,000 Quote Tweets plus Retweets, the company reported. This aims to clamp down on allowing misinformation to go viral.
Moreover, Twitter noted it would consider state election officials and national news outlets such as ABC News, Associated Press, CNN and Fox News that have independent election decision desks as official sources for results.
In addition, the social media companies are under pressure to combat election-related misinformation and prepare for the possibility of violence or poll place intimidation around the November vote.
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