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Thursday 30 January 2020

You can now report voter suppression on Twitter ahead of the 2020 election

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Twitter’s tool for reporting instances of voter suppression is now available for US users, just days ahead of the 2020 Iowa caucuses (via Politico). In its “report this tweet” drop-down menu, US Twitter users now will be able to choose “it’s misleading about a political election” or “it intends to suppress or intimidate someone from voting” as options. If Twitter finds the tweet violates its election integrity policy, the user could be asked to remove the tweet, and repeated abusers could be banned from the platform.

To avoid getting flagged for violating Twitter’s voter suppression rules, don’t tweet a fake election date, for instance, and don’t tweet that one group of voters can vote online or on a different day. And definitely don’t...

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from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/30/21115487/twitter-elections-facebook-youtube-warren-iowa-caucuses
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