{"id":14868,"date":"2019-04-24T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/twitter-to-offer-report-option-for-misleading-election-tweets.html"},"modified":"2019-04-24T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:31:06","slug":"twitter-to-offer-report-option-for-misleading-election-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-to-offer-report-option-for-misleading-election-tweets.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to offer report option for misleading election tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter <\/a> is adding a dedicated report option that enables users to tell it about misleading tweets related to voting \u2014 starting with elections taking place in India and the European Union <\/a>.<\/p>\n

From tomorrow users in India can report tweets they believe are trying to mislead voters \u2014 such as disinformation related to the date or location of polling stations; or fake claims about identity requirements for being able to vote \u2014 by tapping on the arrow menu of the suspicious tweet and selecting the \u2018report tweet\u2019 option and then choosing: \u2018It\u2019s misleading about voting\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Twitter says the tool will go live for the Indian Lok Sabha elections from tomorrow, and will launch in all European Union member states on April 29 \u2014 ahead of elections for the EU parliament next month.<\/p>\n

The \u2018misleading about voting\u2019 option will persist in the list of available choices for reporting tweets for seven days after each election ends, Twitter said in a blog post<\/a> announcing the feature.<\/p>\n

It also said it intends to the vote-focused feature to be rolled out to \u201cother elections globally throughout the rest of the year\u201d, without providing further detail on which elections and markets it will prioritize for getting the tool.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur teams have been trained and we recently enhanced our appeals process<\/a> in the event that we make the wrong call,\u201d Twitter added.<\/p>\n

In recent months the European Commission <\/a> has been ramping up pressure<\/a> on tech platforms to scrub disinformation ahead of elections to the EU parliament \u2014 issuing monthly reports on progress, or, well, the lack of it.<\/p>\n

This follows a Commission initiative last year<\/a> which saw major tech and ad platforms \u2014 including Facebook, Google and Twitter \u2014 sign up to a voluntary Code of Practice on disinformation, committing themselves to take some non-prescribed actions to disrupt the ad revenues of disinformation agents and make political ads more transparent on their platforms.<\/p>\n

Another strand of the Code looks to have directly contributed to the development of Twitter\u2019s new \u2018misleading about voting\u2019 report option \u2014 with signatories committing to:<\/p>\n