Twitter will limit the visibility of copy-paste messages

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A new Twitter update will limit the visibility of tweets that have been simply copied and pasted from another tweet without any modification,

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This practice is widely used by fake accounts or bots, which thus spread political messages and fake news to as many users as possible.

"We have seen an increase in the number of 'copypasta', an attempt to copy, paste and tweet the same sentence," Twitter said.

“When we see this behavior, we can limit the visibility of tweets.

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We've seen an increase in 'copypasta,' an attempt by many accounts to copy, paste, and Tweet the same sentence.

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When we see this behavior, we may limit the visibility of the Tweets.

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- Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 27, 2020

Avoid any political consequences

If Twitter has decided to act against this type of practice, it is also because of the approach of the American presidential election in early November.

Objective: to avoid any political consequences and not to reproduce the errors of the last election, where social networks had largely served as a medium for propaganda.

This update comes as the social network has started to moderate the President's posts.

In fact, on August 23, Twitter opposed a message from Donald Trump.

The tweet in question was reported for "making misleading health claims that could potentially deter people from voting."

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