Twitter says flagged 300,000 'misleading' tweets about the American elections

Twitter says flagged 300,000 'misleading' tweets about the American elections

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Twitter says flagged 300,000 'misleading' tweets about the American elections

SAN FRANSISCO: Twitter labeled nearly 300,000 tweets under its Civic Integrity Policy for content that was disputed and potentially misleading in the US election period from October 27 till November 11.

These represent 0.2 per cent of all US election-related Tweets sent during this time period.

According to the company, 456 of those Tweets were also covered by a warning message and had engagement properties limited (tweets could be Quote Tweeted but not Retweeted, replied to or liked).

"Approximately 74 per cent of the people who viewed those Tweets saw them after we applied a label or warning message," informed Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Lead at Twitter.

"We saw an estimated 29 per cent decrease in Quote Tweets of these labeled Tweets due in part to a prompt that warned people prior to sharing," she said in a statement on Thursday.

The company said it also got ahead of potentially confusing information by showing everyone on Twitter in the US a series of pre-bunk prompts.

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