Twitter announces slew of initiatives to fight misinformation ahead of India’s Assembly Elections

Twitter is ramping up its platform for upcoming Assembly Elections in India in a bid to keep it free from all kinds of misinformation. Twitter has recently announced a slew of features focused on keeping the platform sanitized and informed with healthy conversations between political parties, media and netizens.

The first feature is an information search prompt with the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissions to provide reliable information around the elections. There are pre-bunks and de-bunks features to tackle election-related misinformation, a custom emoji to encourage participation in election discussion and the #DemocracyAdda to better voter’s literacy and participation among young Indians on Twitter.