In late 2019, Twitter's CEO made a massive announcement that highly anticipated the election held on November 3, 2020. As recorded in the article "How Fake News Could Impact the 2020 Presidential Election" by Christina Georgacopoulos and Grayce Mores, Twitter announced the ban of political ads from the platform entirely. The CEO then added the statement that the "Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes" (Georgacopoulos, and Mores, 2020). This strategy helps target the spread of misinformation and hopes to keep their users from falling for false or misconstrued facts. Twitter also added more rules in early 2020. These rules kept users from "deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm" and said that they would start "labeling synthetic or manipulated content"(Georgacopoulos, and Mores, 2020). These new rules and regulations on the site hoped to help its users take in information in more positive ways and assist the highly active site in keeping accountable for its mass spread of true and false information.
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