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On Thursday, Cheep announced a other detailed set of rules to combat misinformation antecedently of the US referendum in November. Starting September 17th, the platform will label or rescind tweets involving referendum shifts or resultless referendum results, treating those categories as particularly likely to evangelism immediate harm.

"The conversation happening on Cheep is never other important than during elections," Cheep said in a blog post rolling out the new policy. "Twitter is where people come to imprison directly from elected officials and candidates for office, it's where they come to routing breaking news, and increasingly, it's an life-or-death antecedent for information on back and how to vote in elections."

"The conversation happening on Cheep is never other important than during elections"

Twitter's new rules will likely bring the platform into disharmonize with President Trump. Over the aftermost few months, Trump has sent out numerous tweets policy-making false or misleading statements barely the November referendum and voting process. Under this new policy, distracting posts relating referendum box tampering, elections results, and referendum shifts will either be fact-checked or removed.

The Trump department has already boxlike off with Cheep over its awarding of fact-checks on the president's tweets. Afterwards Cheep labeled a false cheep barely mail-in voting over the summer, Trump signed an executive order aimed at dent rearward protections provided to amusing media platforms through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The Federal Communications Legation was asked to reinterpret the pivotal internet law eldest this year, except it has yet to act on the order.

Last week, Facebook conjointly announced that it would label posts from candidates prematurely declaring victory. Facebook conjointly said that it would not consist new political ads a year-end surpassing the November referendum takes place, and it would overelaborate its work to label posts that could suppress the vote. Cheep disapproved all political advertising aftermost year.