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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media
(Reuters) - Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it would start applying a label to tweets containing synthetic or deceptively edited forms of media, as social media platforms brace for a potential onslaught of misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The company also said it would remove any deliberately misleading manipulated media likely to cause harm, including content that could result in threats to physical safety, widespread civil unrest, voter suppression or privacy risks.
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Reporting by Katie Paul in San Francisco; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi and Leslie Adler
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Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media (Original Post)
Sogo
Feb 2020
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pandr32
(11,557 posts)1. Hopefully this will apply to DT's tweets
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Not going to happen.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)3. Hey Twitter, I'm not from Missouri but SHOW ME anyway!
riversedge
(70,087 posts)4. I doubt they will ever remove any of trumps tweets.