{"id":27863,"date":"2020-09-10T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27863"},"modified":"2020-09-10T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:58:17","slug":"twitter-to-remove-premature-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27863","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to remove premature election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies targeted at limiting election misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will now label or remove posts that prematurely call an election winner.<\/p>\n<p>In the rules, set to go into effect Sept. 17, Twitter will either label or remove content \u201cclaiming victory before election results have been certified\u201d or seeking to \u201cprevent a peaceful transfer of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy told The Hill that the policy will be applied in a case-by-case basis, meaning an established news outlet calling an election before every vote is counted will be treated differently than a politician seeking to take advantage of delays or confusion.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule change comes amid rising fears that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jtbfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqknfqfjn_estrbbysyfrbqqzzbytp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jtbfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqknfqfjn_estrbbysyfrbqqzzbytp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599862037397000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHb6IVF6ENKLJyUJWjpQbFVH6n8EA\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0may try to delegitimize election results if he is not the winner this November.<\/p>\n<p>The president has already sought to discredit mail-in voting, despite all evidence pointing toward it being a safe and effective alternative to visiting the polls in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter announced Thursday that it is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27864,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions\/27864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}