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By Kanishka Singh
(Reuters) – Social media platforms have stepped up the fight against incorrect information about U.S. elections, with Facebook creating a center for users with survey-related resources and Twitter by expanding regulations that oppose incorrect information on mail ballots and early voting.
The move comes when online social media has been criticized for what has been described as lax with respect to disinformation and fake news campaigns, which many say have affected the final results of the 2016 presidential election.
Twitter’s resolution will involve proposing new policies “that focus on accurate data on all the functions to be voted on, mailing and early voting.”
“We try to allow each and every eligible user to register and vote through partnerships, teams, and new policies,” Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Twitter’s vice president of public policy in the Americas, told Reuters in an email.
Meanwhile, Facebook has introduced a polling data center for users with accurate and easy-to-find voting data wherever they live.
The company said in a blog post that it also spoke to officials about incorrect information related to the effects of elections as an emerging threat.
Twitter has announced that it will implement measures on new voting tools, policies and resources next month. It is exploring how to expand its “civic integrity policies” to address errors in characterizing mail voting and other procedures.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has stated without evidence that mail voting, which is expected to increase particularly due to the coronavirus outbreak, is vulnerable to large-scale fraud.
The procedure is new in the United States: about one in 4 electorates voted this way in 2016.
Many experts have said that regime strategies and the decentralized nature of THE US election make it very difficult to interfere with postal ballots.
(Kanishka Singh informs Bengaluru; edited through Gerry Doyle and Arun Koyyur)