Just days after Facebook blocked a post by President Donald Trump, Twitter unveiled new controls on accounts in a bid to block “disinformation” before Election Day.
Twitter will now not only publicly label a tweet as “misleading” if it contains information on election rules or Covid-19 the company finds incorrect, “when people attempt to Retweet one of these Tweets with a misleading information label, they will see a prompt pointing them to credible information about the topic before they are able to amplify it,” the company announced.
Twitter also added additional restrictions that appear to many to be directly aimed at Trump, who uses the service to bypass the mainstream media and speak directly with supporters.
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“In addition to these prompts, we will now add additional warnings and restrictions on Tweets with a misleading information label from US political figures (including candidates and campaign accounts), US-based accounts with more than 100,000 followers, or that obtain significant engagement,” said Twitter. “People must tap through a warning to see these Tweets, and then will only be able to Quote Tweet; likes, Retweets and replies will be turned off, and these Tweets won’t be algorithmically recommended by Twitter.”
Blocking retweets and keeping tweets out of timelines would greatly reduce Trump’s reach ahead of Election Day.
Twitter also announced they will label tweets by a candidate declaring victory unless that race has been officially called, which appears to many to be aimed at Trump.
“Democratic strategists have specifically warned of a ‘red mirage’ scenario in which Trump is shown to be ahead on Election night before mail-in votes are fully counted, perhaps causing the candidate to prematurely claim victory and dispute the results if Biden later pulls ahead,” Forbes magazine writes
Some have suggested Twitter go even further to limit Trump’s account.
Wired magazine writers Mike Ananny and Daniel Kreiss propose social media companies place Trump’s account on “time delay” so a self-appointed panel can approve his comments first.
“We suggest Twitter and Facebook immediately institute the following process for all of Trump’s social media posts, and for those of other political elites: Any time the president taps ‘Tweet’ or ‘Post,’ his content is not displayed immediately but sent to a small 24/7 team of elite content moderators who can evaluate whether the content accords with these platforms’ well-established policies,” Ananny and Kreiss write.
“Within, say, three minutes, such a team would decide whether to (a) let the post through, (b) let the post through with restrictions, (c) place a public notice on Trump’s account saying that the platform is evaluating a post and needs more time, or (d) block the post entirely because it breaks the company’s policies,” they add.
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Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
I hope this does not happen,because the social media are the same as fake news conglomerates! This type of censorship is uncalled for and limits the exchange of the truth!
What i hate is that we will have to get just as disgusting as they are to beat them.
Twitter is exceeding their authority as an impartial venue.
IOW the liberal ownership of these social media’s sites are again proving they’re more than willing to censor Trumps words along with much of the conservative side, that they know/hope will severely impact the election results.
More favorable to their liberal followers. 👎👎👎
Richard Sutherland Not only that they are trying to silence TRUMP
It’s discriminatory and censorship is wrong and it amazes me that people would utilize FB or Twitter.
Use litigation as a weapon to drive these vermin out of business.
First, stop using those platforms. Then, contact their advertisers and tell them you don’t use those platforms, and tell them why. If enough people do that, advertisers will pull their business from FB and Twitter.
Disinformation from Twitter means information for most people.
At some point doesn’t some conservative need to start a social media site that the other half of the country can use and not get banned from? How about a browser that is not run by ultra leftists? This would seem reasonable give the nonsense that goes on and yet never seems to happen. If you made it a fair forum you would get left and right to adopt it.
Censorship is for authoritarianism. Allegedly what the Dems say they are against. Unfortunately, the day that our constitutional republic comes to an end is nearing, and very quickly.
Upvote for you post. (System refuses to allow me to upvote you)
No one of importance follows tweets! TRUMP REACHES REAL PEOPLS AT RALLIES FACE TO FACE
Guess we should boycott these websites!!!!!!
Sounds like election meddling to me. Do they do the same for quid pro Joe?
Even if they did we are not allowed to know quote Joe Biden! Why censor anyone from what I have seen on various websites and tweets they allow abuse eg false accusations, insults, slander, threats, lies by Democrat supporters with little or no censor concerns.
So what does that tell you as Americans they support the Democrats and their socialist agenda. You only have two choices agree with Democrats pushing socialism or keep America free, safe and economically strong.
Proud Veteran & Patriot
This is the most obvious, unadulterated form of censorship that I have ever seen. Twitter won’t censor Democrats/Liberals but will censor our President and other Republicans. You know that just ain’t right. No wonder so many of us hate the media. They are so biased you can’t trust them to give you the time of day.
Unbelievable ..I guess Twitter thinks that lettin g the liberals spew their poison about Trump negative and post lies abou the election is okay and. Who are these assholes that determine what’s allowed. Bet their a bunch of liberal hacks. Awlful what’s going on in this country. I hope when Trump wins reelection we shut these criminal social media turds down. Too much liberal bullshit allowed to go unchecked..
When are Twitter, and the other lib social media sites going to be regulated or broken up like ma bell was?
I pray Trump wins and takes Twitter o account by stripping the non-sueable contracts of social media based on their supposedly non-bias and open forum based on free speech. This also applies to Facebook, and YouTube now that they have breached this covenant and taken on the values as a news organization no different than the NYT and WP to be subject to the same regulations as they are.
In this case President Trump should droop Twiddick all together and go to another platform. With President millions and millions followers gone I am sure Thwiddick will have a “very good time”
How dare twitter decide what is right, wrong, good,bad etc. post comments & let readers decide for themselves. This is just another way the communists are controlling news and American people. Break up Twitter, too much power and money.
Just another example of how these pay for play media will follow the Democrats to hell just to gain power, control, ratings and monetary benefit.
Re the Red mirage, it would be more accurate to say Trump shown ahead before sufficient Biden votes can be
fully countedmanufactured.So are they going to censor Biden’s many lies?
Of course not. These social media sites are all owned and run by liberals who want Biden to win.
If Trump posts something that is factual or that is his opinion and it is clear it is his opinion and they censor it while letting others pass, this should be viewed as seditious activity against the United States of America and our lawful government and people should be arrested at Twitter. Period.
Orwellian bias MUST STOP.
by banning free speech we have no speech. who says your fact checkers are correct. I say ban Facebook, Twitter the corrupt media who reports biased news. if news papers do not report both sides fine them . millions of dollars sue them until they go broke. covenant Kentucky won a bunch from fake news people. fake media got us into spanish american war. boiler explosion on the Maine, per Hearst. no weapons of war on that passenger ship Lusatania until.new technology showed weapons of war in the hold.
President Trump. Move to MEWE or Parler. Get away from the left wing socialist fake media.
The “TRUTH” according to the morons at Twitter… What a F**KING JOKE ! The internet needs a major enema, starting with Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and on and on… THEN go for the Anti American/ Pro Socialist media.
Great target for Trumps next four years…
We will elect him and I hope you are punished
Twitter is nothing more than a propagandist social media organization promoting socialist left wing liberal candidates and shunning conservatives. I left Twitter for Parler after they blocked and removed my conservative remarks/views. It is unAmerican activity to bar free speech. They need to change their ways at Twitter or be shut down.
They do know Trump is the President of the United States correct? Who in the hello do they think they are?
They think that they have power over our thought processes and they may be correct, sad to say! Once we re-elect Mr Trump his DOJ must do something about these Social Media Sites! We have had it!
Looks like we may have to form committees to charge these companies with attempting to interfere in the elections, only this time they would be tied to the Democrats instead of to Trump!
Twitter blocks trump? I’m Done With Twitter!
This seems to be open warfare against the President, Republicans and Conservatives! Liberals can post any amount of demented sh..t and Twitter doesn’t blink! They need to be sued out of existence! I would never want to be on that hostile site!!
Twitter is now both an enemy and a political action organization. The Constitution defines natural rights, not just the responsibilities of government. When government corruptly allows a business to violate our rights, the courts should step in and require corrective action and to assess both civil and criminal penalties on all involved in violating our rights. You can’t assert a right to regulate content and not be legally responsible for the results of your actions.
Conservatives should use the litigation weapon, frequently used by liberals to shop for courts that will issue injunctions and allow lawsuits against Twitter, creating such massive litigation costs that Twitter is forced to change or is driven out of business.
The same weapons should be used against our other enemy, Facebook.
What do we expect? Biden says he graduated in the top of his class and the school says no, near the bottom…. And SO MUCH MORE….
This what to expect from these people….
God help us all….
social media has rune this country ,nobody knows how to talk to another person face to face. you can what evre o social media and nobody is held accountable for their lies.
What a Disgrace twit and Facebook are to America, they are NO better then China, they censor what truth the American people speak, to hide what the people know, so they can hide the truth from those who don’t know the truth, Shameful the left are trying to turn America into China, because twit and Facebook are bought off puppets of the communist party,Just like the democrats and the MSM are. WAKE UP America Vote RED OR America is DEAD, and so is the America way of life.
Twitter pulls this shit on Trump, but bald-faced LIES being pushed by leftist crackpots go unchallenged by them.
Twitter should be forced by federal law to post a disclaimer to the effect that they are openly biased in favor of leftists.
Why are you doing this to President Trump when most of what the democrats are doing the same thing to and about him?
Twitter you need to listen to the people! You ok the Democrats and post their bullshit and not fact-check them but everything President Trump says you go and put warning on or not post it! I’m done with you! You’ve gotten just as bad as Facebook!
That’s wrong politics u can say anything look at biden lies
This is absolutely outrageous. Will be very interesting to see how they treat the other side.
When Trump is re-elected I hope he directs A.G. Barr to go after these social networks. President Trump should also personally go after these networks with lawsuits
PRESIDENT TRUMP, Go to Parler! It’s much better than Twitter!
Twitter is garbage. I keep telling my congresswoman to get the republicans in Congress to shut them down permanently.
We don’t need Twitter ! Drop it, unfollow and unsubscribe! These companies are showing their true colors….. They are non- Essential….. and we can do without their censoring !
Just letting you know that the silent majority is tired of your censorship and thrre wii be an uprising on election day!!! Democtrats have cheated enough and we’re tired of it. Election is the 3rd of November!!! If they can’t get votes in by then they are null and void!!!!!!
Where in HELL does it say that Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are CENSORING that rotten, senile CROOK Joe Biden’s Campaign the same way they are restricting President Trump’s?????? What in HELL is going on here???????
I thought that at least INSTAGRAM would not pull this “censorship” crap with Donald Trump’s posts, but it seems INSTAGRAM is ALSO in bed with Biden’s COMMUNIST PARTY as is Twitter and Facebook. J-C! HOW CAN THE PUBLIC RISE UP TO STOP THIS??? I understand the President and the Republican Party are rising up and calling for an IMMEDIATE investigation into all three entities’ unfair censorship practices! GOOD FOR THEM !!!!!