Twitter is fighting election chaos by urging users to quote tweet instead of retweet

Twitter declared a slue of temporal changes on Friday aimed at staving off abuse around the November 3rd US presidential election. Tweets that include premature claims of triumph leave be labeled, tweets intended to incite interference in the election or election results will glucinium subject to remotion, and tweets from political figures with more than 100,000 followers — which includes President Trump — that are labelled as "misleading" will be more difficult to access.

"Twitter has a appraising role to flirt in protecting the wholeness of the election conversation, and we encourage candidates, campaigns, news outlets and voters to habituate Twitter respectfully and to recognize our clustered responsibility to the electorate to guarantee a safe, moderate and legitimate democratic process this November," according to a blog office authored past Twitter legal, policy, and trust and safety chair Vijaya Gadde and production lead Kayvon Beykpour.

The temporary changes will put off the brakes on how almost people can use Twitter. Start today, users will represent encouraged to "add their own commentary" before retweeting something, pushing them toward the quote tweet alternative instead. Users who choose not to quote tweet privy still retweet, but the troupe says it's adding "extra friction and an extra step" in the hopes that IT will "increase the likelihood that people tally their own thoughts, reactions and perspectives to the conversation."

Twitter also won't provide "liked by" and "followed by" recommendations from people a user doesn't follow and will only include trending topics in its "for you" check for USA users that include "additional context." And when a exploiter tries to retweet a tweet that's been tagged every bit "deceptive," they'll see a punctual directing them to credible information before they can retweet the unhealthy info.

Twitter has labeled several of Cornet's tweets for violating its rules on manipulated media and civic and election unity for tweeting falsehoods about mail-in voting. The labels have not appeared to deter the president, however. Later on Twitter labeled a false tweet most mail-in voting in May, Trump signed an executive ordering aimed at reducing protections provided to social media platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Last month, Chitter announced a new set of rules to address misinformation in the lead of the US election, which included plans to judge OR remove tweets with sour information about election rigging and results. It also said information technology would label posts from candidates prematurely declaring victory, and it banned completely political advertising last year.

The changes will rolling wave down to users in the coming days. Twitter says IT has already increased its faculty functional on the US election to respond to whatever Election 24-hour interval issues that arise.