Twitter Updated Rules to Fight Against Fake Accounts and Election Interference

Twitter announced in a post on the company's blog that starting October 1st, 2018, they will make updates to the platform's rules, improve the detection of spam and bot accounts and the enforcement of all regulations, as well as changes to the user experience according to user feedback.

As stated in the company's press release, as part of the product developments they announced, they added a support portal specifically for electoral institutions designed to allow Twitter to react as fast as possible in cases of critical election-related issues.

Twitter will also remind all election candidates to have two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts as an extra layer of protection against hackers who would want to compromise their accounts.

As part of the detection and enforcement improvements announced on Monday, Twitter will also continue to... (read more)

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