What you need to know about social media platforms’ election misinformation policies.
and other information about the reliability and security of mail-in voting under the header “Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud.” Twitter justified this choice by saying the tweets were in violation of the platform’s civic integrity policy because the “could confuse voters about what they need to do to receive a ballot and participate in the election process.
There are three important things to know about how social media platforms will deal with election misinformation. First, false information is generally allowed unless it falls into one of the specific categories of content that platforms are willing to enforce the truth in, such as democratic processes. That’s good news: Social media platforms have said they will do.
False and misleading information is generally acceptable under social media companies’ community standards. Twitter doesn’t remove tweets claiming that
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