Twitter has unveiled a new label for Election Day announcements that don’t come from “official sources” – a category including not just election authorities, but national news outlets that frequently get stories wrong.
From Tuesday through Inauguration Day – over two months – Twitter will slap a ‘disputed’ label on “some Tweets that make claims about election results,” the platform announced on its blog on Monday. Election-related tweets from any candidate running in 2020 and their campaigns, along with US-based accounts with over 100,000 followers, risk incurring the punitive labels, as does any tweet with over 25,000 likes or retweets.
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