Twitter Moves To Thwart Spoofing Of US Candidates

The Associated Press reports:

Twitter is bringing back special labels to help users identify accounts and tweets from U.S. political candidates. The company, which first used such labels for the midterms last year, said it is trying to provide users with original sources of information and prevent spoofed and fake accounts from fooling voters.

Many political candidates already have blue checkmarks to indicate that Twitter has checked that they are who they say they are. The election labels go further and provide details such as what office a person is running for and where.   The labels will appear on candidates’ accounts and tweets, even if they are retweeted by someone else.