Twitter Seeks to Limit Spread of Misinformation Before Vote
- Service changes retweet feature to cut down on misinformation
- Social networks add new policies in last weeks of campaign
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Twitter Inc. announced a handful of product changes intended to make it harder for users to spread misinformation on the service in the final weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign.
Some of the alterations are related to Twitter’s retweet feature, which lets users share another person’s post to their own followers, and is the fastest way for a tweet to go viral. If someone tries to retweet a post that has been labeled as false, Twitter will show “a prompt pointing them to credible information about the topic,” the company said Friday. It will also put more misleading tweets behind a warning screen, forcing users to click in order to see the original post.