Posted on 08/11/2022 11:02:41 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Twitter is both reviving and improving its election misinformation strategy ahead of the 2022 US midterms. The social network has reactivated enforcement of its Civic Integrity Policy to prepare for the vote, and there are a handful of upgrades in store this year. To begin, it will avoid recommending misleading tweets through notifications — falsehoods might not spread as much as in the past. The company is considering this approach for "other surfaces," too.
You should also see redesigned fact-check labels that are better at prompting people to read. Twitter first tested these labels in late 2021.
Other efforts will be more familiar. You already see candidate labels for any Governor, House or Senate hopeful who qualified for the general election ballot. You can expect "prebunks" that counter bogus claims before they become hot topics. You'll find a dedicated US Elections tab in Explore, along with state-specific hubs. Twitter plans to ramp up protection for candidates as well, with "more sophisticated" detection of suspicious activity as well as more login safeguards and speedier account recovery should the worst happen.
These aren't dramatic changes to Twitter's methods from previous elections, including those outside the US. However, it's clear the firm is bracing for trouble in light of the fallout from 2020. The question is whether or not this will be enough. Critics warned of shortcomings in social media companies' anti-misinformation efforts during the previous elections, and tweaks to recommendations and labels aren't guaranteed to address those issues.
And only our side will be “fact-checked,” and Democratic lies will be presented as facts instead. Count on it.
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Who the H*ll made Big Tech the arbiter of information/misinformation?! Once these platforms begin editing their site, they no longer deserve the protections of Section 230 immunity!
Just trying to present more evidence for people around here to drop twatter like a bad habit.
Of course. The media, the democrat party and the DS are one and the same. They’re all together. Like organized crime.
They misspelled “SPREAD”.
Twitter’s misinformation strategy is to suppress the truth and support the lies from the left.
Twitter is a vile, evil arm of the left.
And so it goes. Trump was right about Elon.
Exactly.
I wonder if a class action suit could be filed on behalf of anyone who has been censored by Twitter, Facebook, or other entities? Based on Section 230, it would seem that these entities have no exposure for what is on their site, thus any censorship would be liable to free-speech rights. In other words, they would not have the right to selectively censor, and have no legal exposure compelling them to do so.
Those censored should have 'standing' to file suit, and if this is challenged now is the time to appeal this to the Supreme Court.
Exactly.
The group Occupy Democrats has an official Twitter account and as far as I know, they’ve NEVER been suspended or banned for the lies and misinformation they’ve told.
I wonder if we’d have ever heard of Mark Lane if this MetaTwitterverse had been policing “misinformation” then as now. Or any other infamous Deniers.
Caesar always kills the Truth Teller. Always.
Twitter misinformation crackdown backer pushed ban on Hunter Biden laptop story
“Roth operated as the social network’s head of site integrity in 2020, when Twitter decided to restrict the sharing of a New York Post article about the laptop belonging to the president’s son. Twitter enforced the restriction based on “rumors” from the intelligence community alleging that Biden would be the target of a hack, Roth said during a September 2021 hearing before the Federal Election Commission. While many outlets initially alleged the story was false, reporting in March of this year eventually confirmed the claim.”
This means propagate and control information in an Orwellian Ministry of Truth manner.
Censorship. Bans. Techno totalitarianism.
Jut got my account permanently suspended for thrashing leftists. Oh well.
Twitter needs to join the dodo bird.
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