Twitter announces measure to protect India's state assembly polls

Ahead of the assembly polls in four states Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and a Union Territory of Puducherry, the Twitter has announced that it is implementing significant product, policy, and enforcement updates to keep the service safe from manupulation.

Meanwhile, a global cross-functioning team will run the election integrity work, the platform stakeholders said that they are taking proactive measures to prevent prohibited political advertisings through various mechanisms.

"These include identifying and blocking ads from referenced candidates, parties, and other election-related content," the company said in a statement.

"These Tweets won't be algorithmically recommended by Twitter, which further reduces the visibility of misleading information," the company announced.

"These will be visible to account holders in India in the Explore Tab, and will provide continuous updates and context throughout the election period with multiple language videos from a variety of news partners in the carousel," the company informed.

"We are taking extra steps to ensure people have context to what's trending for them and will include a representative Tweet, Twitter Moment or description to the top trends".

The platform will also launch an events page based on the assembly elections on voting days and for the election results day.