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Our initial review shows that people want to know if they’re viewing manipulated content and they support Twitter labeling it. In the coming months, we’ll finish reviewing responses and finalizing the policy before we make another announcement 30 days before it goes into effect.

Thank you so much for your feedback about synthetic and manipulated media. We received more than 6,500 responses during the open comment period, which will help shape our new policy.https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1193892824489562118…

We're committed to empowering voices on Twitter, as well as partnering with activists and NGOs who use Twitter to #StandUp4HumanRights.https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1204158818495668224…

The Twitter Privacy Center is intended to be the central privacy resource for people that use Twitter and to help hold us accountable to everyone who trusts us with their data.

We're also making it easier to secure your account with Two-Factor Authentication. Starting today, you can enroll in 2FA without a phone number.https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1134174785137782789…

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We’re striving to be more proactive & open in the work we do to protect the conversation on Twitter. This includes investing in technology to detect Tweets that may break our rules without relying on you to report it first. More here from our 15th Twitter Transparency Report https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1189908554779701248…

We’ve been examining our political ads policies to ensure we’re serving the needs of the people who use Twitter. Starting next month, we're no longer allowing political advertisements on Twitter. We’ll share more details on November 15.https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952…

In the coming weeks, we'll announce a feedback period so that you can help us refine this policy before it goes live. Stay tuned for more!

Why are we doing this? We need to consider how synthetic media is shared on Twitter in potentially damaging contexts. We want to listen and consider your perspectives in our policy development process. We want to be transparent about our approach and values.

The new policy will address this type of content, specifically when it could threaten someone’s physical safety or lead to offline harm.

What’s synthetic and manipulated media? It’s media that’s been significantly altered or created in a way that changes the original meaning/purpose, or makes it seem like certain events took place that didn’t actually happen.

We’re always updating our rules based on how online behaviors change. We're working on a new policy to address synthetic and manipulated media on Twitter – but first we want to hear from you.

Our goal is to enforce our rules judiciously and impartially. In doing so, we aim to provide direct insight into our enforcement decision-making, to serve public conversation, and protect the public’s right to hear from their leaders and to hold them to account.

We haven’t used this notice yet, but when we do, you will not be able to like, reply, share, or Retweet the Tweet in question. You will still be able to express your opinion with Retweet with Comment.

We’ve also made updates to our reporting flow, to do our part in reducing the stigma around suicide. Now, reporting a Tweet that suggests someone intends to hurt themselves will no longer need to be reported as abusive content.

Twitter fosters a space for difficult conversations. Last year we rolled out a feature that connected people with resources when they searched certain terms related to suicide and self-harm, and we are expanding that today to more languages and countries.

These covert, manipulative behaviors have no place on our service — they violate the fundamental principles on which Twitter was built. We hope that we can empower further learning and public understanding of these nefarious behaviors that undermine the public conversation.