Twitter announces measures to protect India assembly polls
As the assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry inch nearer, Twitter on Wednesday mentioned it’s implementing vital product, coverage, and enforcement updates to maintain the service secure from makes an attempt to manipulate the platform.
While a world cross-functional workforce with native, cultural, and language experience will run the election integrity work, Twitter mentioned it’s taking proactive measures to stop prohibited political promoting via complete and nuanced enforcement mechanisms.
“These include identifying and blocking ads from referenced candidates, parties, and other election-related content,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement.
Twitter mentioned it would label artificial and manipulated media and hyperlink it to a Twitter Moment to give folks further context and surface-related conversations “so they can make more informed decisions on the content they want to engage with or amplify”.
When folks try to retweet tweets with an artificial and manipulated media label, they are going to see a immediate pointing them to credible data.
“These Tweets won’t be algorithmically recommended by Twitter, which further reduces the visibility of misleading information,” the corporate introduced.
Twitter can even launch an occasions web page devoted to the assembly elections on voting days and for the election outcomes day.
The web page will embody a timeline of Tweets from credible accounts to present the most recent data on the times of voting and election outcomes.
“These will be visible to account holders in India in the Explore Tab, and will provide continuous updates and context throughout the election period with multiple language videos from a variety of news partners in the carousel,” the corporate knowledgeable.
“We are taking extra steps to ensure people have context to what’s trending for them and will include a representative Tweet, Twitter Moment or description to the top trends”.
