Twitter to add special labels to political candidates in US

Twitter to add special labels to political candidates in US

6 years ago
Anonymous $CLwNLde341

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-twitter-special-political-candidates.html

Both the candidate's account and the tweets from it will get labels. The labels will appear on retweets as well as tweets off of Twitter, such as when they are embedded in a news story.

Twitter, along with Facebook and other social media companies, has been under heavy scrutiny for allowing their platforms to be misused by malicious actors trying to influence elections around the world.