Twitter Is Controlling Fake News Ahead Of 2019 India Election

Monday, according to Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and co-founder, the social network is conducting measures to control spreading misleading information on Twitter before India General Election in 2019.

Speaking at a Town Hall-style meeting at IIT-D (Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Twitter CEO stated that fake news is a serious problem.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter Co-founder and CEO

In fact, jokes are also counted as misinformation, so misinformation itself is not a problem. What really matters is that misleading information is spread widely and intentionally to mislead people.

Dorsey expressed his interest in tackling this issue by making a lock. He suggested using AI to build a lock, though it may not be perfect, the social network needs to be one step ahead of the criminals.

Earlier that day, Dorsey met Rahul Gandhi, Congress President, and had a discussion on what Twitter was doing to limit fake news spread as well as promote healthy conversation on the social network.

Over the weekend, Twitter CEO also met the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. Dorsey may also meet Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union IT Minister, following the increasing criticism over Twitter’s contribution to spreading fake news and misinformation, which has led to Assembly polls in five states from November to December.

In the US, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks were inspected after failing to prevent Russia-link accounts from spreading misinformation during the Presidential election in 2016.

Since then, Twitter has tried much harder to control divisive message and fake news spread on its system.

For better protection of the elections’ integrity, Twitter said it would eliminate fake accounts which posed dangerous, emergent behaviors.

According to the new regulations, accounts that copy or replace previously deleted accounts for rules violations will be counted as fake accounts by Twitter.

However, Knight Foundation published a study in October, saying that for every ten Twitter accounts, there are eight linked to spreading misinformation when the US election was running in 2016.