Professional Cheaters Gearing Up Again: Twitter Launches Campaign to Suppress Political Narratives It Doesn't Like, Promote Others Ahead of Midterms

On Thursday, Twitter announced “Our Approach to the 2022 U.S. Midterms,” detailing its plan to suppress some speech regarding the elections, and to advance other narratives it deems acceptable.

Specifically, Twitter says it is will be using “prebuttals” to “get ahead” of political narratives it subjectively considers “misinformation” – and “proactively” promote other speech it endorses:

“In the lead up to election day, we’ll share prompts with information about how and where to vote, directly to people’s timelines.

“We’re also bringing back prebunks — in English, Spanish, and all other languages supported on Twitter — to get ahead of misleading narratives on Twitter, and to proactively address topics that may be the subject of misinformation. Over the coming months, we’ll place prompts directly on people’s timelines in the US and in Search when people type related terms, phrases, or hashtags.”

Twitter will also actively suppress and denounce comments of some of those who question the legitimacy or results of elections, the announcement says: