Twitter expands rules against election-related misinformation, teeing up a showdown with Trump as 2020 voting begins

CNN ^ | 9/10/2020 | Marshall Cohen

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Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation, setting new rules that will likely force the platform to more aggressively fact-check President Donald Trump during the final months of the 2020 campaign.

The social media giant rolled out the new policies in a blog post, which said that Twitter will either add fact-check labels to or hide altogether tweets that contain "false or misleading information that causes confusion" about election rules, or posts with "unverified information about election rigging." 

Twitter's porous and subjective policies have enabled Trump to spread a steady stream of misinformation about the election to millions of Americans. The company led the way for Big Tech when it rebuked Trump for a misleading tweet in May, but that watershed moment has ended up looking more like an outlier. Twitter only rarely applies fact-check labels to Trump's tweets containing false information about voting, and it's unclear how much labeling achieves.

The new rules, which Twitter says will go into effect next week, explicitly prohibit a lot of the material Trump is prone to posting, putting the company on a collision course with Trump while it tries to help steer the country through an unprecedented voting and post-election process.

The new rules include policies geared toward reducing potential post-election chaos, a major concern this year because of Trump's rhetoric and the influx of mail-in ballots, which will slow down vote-counting. Twitter will now prohibit "misleading claims about the results," premature claims of victory, or "inciting unlawful conduct" that prevents a peaceful transition of power.

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[KC_Lion]

“But but but, Muh Private Company”

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CNN continuing its history of "contributions in kind" to the Dem platform:

CNN to host town hall with Joe Biden

By: Kate Sullivan

Source: CNN

(CNN)CNN will host a town hall with 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden next week, the network announced Thursday.

The town hall will take place on September 17 at 8 p.m. ET in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and will be moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper. It will be Biden's first prime time town hall since accepting the nomination. The event, which will feature a socially-distanced live audience, will follow Pennsylvania's guidance and regulations regarding the coronavirus pandemic.

The town hall will air on CNN, CNN en Español, CNN International and CNN Airport Network and will stream on CNN.com, CNN OTT apps for AppleTV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Samsung SmartTV and Android TV, and CNN Mobile apps for iOS and Android, CNN's SiriusXM Channels and the Westwood One Radio Network.

It will come less than seven weeks ahead of Election Day and as Biden and President Donald Trump enter the home stretch to November 3.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/politics/cnn-town-hall-joe-biden/index.html

[JonPreston]

“But but but, Muh Private Company”

The deeply concerned, principled conservatives are toasting @Jack, while at the same time having their back pockets filled with campaign contributions from the Socials.

[FreeReign]

Twitter will remove many Trump Tweets, or anybody else's Tweets that document Democrat voter fraud.

Just watch what they censor as the universal mail ballots roll in, day after day, until they think Biden will win.

Oh wait, we can't watch them censor Tweets, because we won't be able to see the Tweets.

[falcon99]

The corrupt and Leftist Twitter is hardly a reliable and unbiased arbiter of what is and isn’t misinformation

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[Fedora]

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[Luke21]

The one sided shills will probably allow Bill Barr bagpipes videos.

[IAGeezer912]

Fauci’s daughter works at Twitter.