Twitter Has Launched New Reporting Feature For Elections In India
Dhir Acharya - Apr 26, 2019
On Wednesday, Twitter launched a new feature that allows users to report tweets aiming at misleading voters, which is currently available in India and the EU.
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Micro-blogging platform Twitter wants to take every action it can to secure voting. And in its latest effort, on Wednesday, the social network launched a new feature that allows users to report tweets aiming at misleading voters.
According to Twitter, content created to interfere or manipulate in elections violates its policies. In particular, misleading information about the election official time and date, misleading content about requirements to vote, and misleading information about the procedures to vote as well as register to vote.
In the meantime, the company has launched this feature in India and EU only. The company said the feature will eventually come to other elections across the world throughout the year. Twitter users can take advantage of this new reporting feature on both the web version and the mobile app.
Answering the question of whether this feature will come to the US, a spokesperson from the social network said that the company is exploring this feature for major elections in other countries and regions and that it will release an update in 2020 if and when there is one.
The social platform states that this new reporting feature is an additional attempt to its current actions to improve the healthiness of conversations across its network. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, on Tuesday, discussed with US President Donald Trump on measures to protect public conversation around its platform as preparation for the US elections in 2020.
Besides, the social network has reportedly removed over 10,000 accounts that discourage other users from voting in the November 2018 midterm elections in the US. In July 2018, reports said that Twitter was suspending over 10 lakh accounts every day as an attempt to fight misinformation.
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