Twitter Adds ‘Pre-Bunk’ Alerts To Preempt False Voting, Election Information 10/27/2020 – MediaPost Communications

Twitter on Monday announced that itwill start placing messaging at the top of users feeds that aims to preemptively counter any false tweets about voting and the election.

The unprecedented messaging format, dubbed apre-bunk, will appear at the top of all U.S. users news feeds.

Were introducing pre-bunks for some of the most common misleading claims about#Election2020, tweeted Twitters Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth (above). Research shows that getting ahead of misinformation is a powerful way to build resilience. Excited tosee this application of inoculation theory in practice.

One message reads: Election experts confirm that voting by mail is safe and secure, even with an increase in mail-inballots. Even so, you might encounter unconfirmed claims that voting by mail leads to election fraud ahead of the 2020 US elections. The message is accompanied by a link to additional votinginformation.

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Another points out that full election results may be delayed for legitimate reasons.

The move is the most recent in a flurryof actions taken in recent weeks by Twitter and Facebook in efforts to address the flood of falsehoods about voting, including President Trumps claims that mail-in voting is rife withfraud.

Twitter which stopped taking political ads as of late last year has previously said that candidates cannot claim election wins on its platformprior to authoritative calls (from election officials or two national news outlets), and that it will put warning labels on any premature results calls, with a link to its election page.

Inaddition, Twitter says it is preventing users from liking misleading posts by politicians, and only allowing retweets of those posts if users add their own commentary; flaggingmisleading posts by politicians by requiring users to tap through a warning label before reading them; and preventing its algorithms from recommending those posts.

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Twitter Adds 'Pre-Bunk' Alerts To Preempt False Voting, Election Information 10/27/2020 - MediaPost Communications