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Twitter unveils plans for ‘pre-bunks’ and special labels for midterm elections

By Christopher Hutton
Published August 11, 2022 5:31pm ET
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Twitter unveils plans for ‘pre-bunks’ and special labels for midterm elections
The Twitter Inc. logo is seen behind an Apple Inc. iPhone 6s displaying the company's mobile application in this arranged photograph taken in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Twitter Inc. is changing its timeline to display popular tweets first, instead of the latest posts, a long-anticipated step thats likely to anger its most passionate users. Twitter is scheduled to report quarterly earnings results following the close of U.S. financial markets on February 10. | (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

Twitter detailed plans to manage the spread of news and curb misinformation in the 2022 midterm elections with “pre-bunks” of certain narratives and labels for campaign accounts.

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