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Twitter began writing tweets on Wednesday to interfere with users' votes, starting first in Europe and India. The social network included the ability to flag messages that were misleading during electoral processes, on their platforms in India and Europe, with the promise of expanding the function around the world for the rest of the year.

"Any attempt to undermine the registration process to vote or participate in the electoral process is contrary to the core values ​​of our society," the Twitter security team warned in an online publication. "We are further expanding our intervention capabilities in this area by creating a reporting feature that makes it easier for users to inform us about this type of content," he added.

Examples of misleading information include messages falsely claiming that you can vote by email, phone, SMS or even via Twitter messages. "You can not use Twitter services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering with elections," said the network security team, which has been used repeatedly to urge voters to go to the polls in days and days. bad times, making you lose opportunities to vote.

Twitter and other social networks have been under pressure to prevent their platforms from being used to spread falsehoods to influence the vote, which would have happened in the 2016 US presidential elections.