Twitter announces outlets that can call election results

Published November 2, 2020 3:55pm ET



Twitter revealed more details on how it’ll be combating misinformation on Election Day.

On Monday, the social media giant announced seven news outlets it’ll lean on to make proclamations of election outcomes. The list includes ABC News, Associated Press, CNN, CBS News, Decision Desk HQ, Fox News, and NBC News. Twitter will wait for two of those seven outlets to call a race before it allows posts definitively declaring a winner. Twitter said it will label tweets prematurely declaring a winner.

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