Twitter is deploying new features on Thursday that it says will keep pace with disinformation and influence operations targeting the 2020 election.
A new policy on “synthetic and manipulated media,” attempts to flag and provide greater context for content that the platform believes to have been “significantly and deceptively altered or fabricated.”
Starting Thursday, when users scroll through posts, they may begin seeing Twitter’s new labeling system — a blue exclamation point and the words “manipulated media” underneath a video, photo or other media that the platform believes to have been tampered with or deceptively shared.
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Source: Twitter Vows That As Disinformation Tactics Change, Its Policies Will Keep Pace : NPR