Twitter announces ‘pre-bunk’ messages to combat potential misinformation

Published October 26, 2020 7:33pm ET



Twitter announced it is expanding its policies “to further protect the civic conversation” by placing messages above users’ feeds debunking false information about mail-in voting and the results of the election.

Announced on Monday, Twitter is calling these messages “pre-bunk” notifications because they won’t be a response to a specific tweet that contains misinformation, according to NBC News.

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