OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Twitter is imposing tough new rules that restrict candidates from declaring premature victory and tighten its measures against spreading misinformation, calling for political violence and spreading thoughtless commentary in the days leading up to and following the Nov.
3 U.S. election.The social platform will remove tweets that encourage violence or call for people to interfere with election results.
Tweets that falsely claim a candidate has won will be labeled to direct users to the official U.S. election results page on Twitter.RELATED: Facebook to ban QAnon, militarized social movement ads ahead of electionTwitter said Friday it is will also make it more difficult to retweet posts it has labeled to highlight the.