Twitter starts labelling tweets with manipulated media in India: How this works

Twitter has started labelling tweets, which include manipulated media in India as well. Twitter had first announced it would start labelling tweets with manipulated media back in February 2020. The social media website has taken a lot of steps to combat misinformation on the platform this year. In light of the US elections, it also started labelling tweets with misinformation or disputed claims. One result of Twitter’s labelling was that US President Donald Trump found most of his tweets post-election being called out for misinformation.

At the time of the US election, Twitter had said in a blogpost that it will “label tweets that falsely claim a win for any candidate and will remove tweets that encourage violence or call for people to interfere with election results or the smooth operation of polling places.”