translated from Spanish: U.S. election: Twitter warns it will fight misleading posts

Twitter announced Thursday that starting next week it will label misleading claims or erase lies that seek to undermine public confidence in U.S. elections Unidos.La policy will encompass tweets that seek to undermine public confidence in the electoral process, such as false claims about voter fraud or ballot manipulation, or the outcome of elections He said Twitter.La social network added that the policy will take effect on September 17, a few weeks before the U.S. presidential election scheduled for November 3. Many Americans are expected to vote by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic, which is likely to delayed election results. Social media companies have worked to strengthen their policies in order to avoid false information, but it is unclear whether such work will be sufficient. Facebook said last week that it will restrict new political announcements the week leading up to the election and that it will remove posts containing false information about COVID-19 and elections. It will also include links to official results to publications made by candidates and campaigns declaring victory prematurely. Twitter has taken stronger action than Facebook. He has banned political announcements and began marking President Donald Trump’s tweets with warning tags to the need for data verification in May, causing the agency to annoy. San Francisco-based Twitter said its policy of tagging, rather than eliminating, tweets that break its policies and have been published by world leaders will remain in place with its new rules. That means that even if a candidate posts misleading statements about election results, the post would likely continue because Twitter considers it “public interest.” That said, the visibility of the post would be lower and people won’t be able to share it.” We will not allow our service to be abused around civic processes, especially around an election,” Twitter said in a post Thursday. “Any attempt to do so, both nationally and internationally, will face strict application of the rules, which apply equally and with discretion to all,” he added. Although the policy came weeks before the U.S. election, more than 80% of Twitter users are outside the United States and the policy will apply globally.

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