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Twitter India has activated Assembly election-related services in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Assamese and Malayalam.
The micro-blogging platform’s initiative with the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissions is aimed at tackling misinformation and providing reliable details related to elections. With Assembly elections coming up in five States, micro-blogging platform Twitter on Monday announced a dedicated ‘information search prompt’ in six languages with the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissions to tackle misinformation and provide reliable details related to elections.
The U.S.-headquartered firm has also rolled out a multilingual youth discussion series in India ‘DemocracyAdda’ aimed at driving voter literacy and civic participation among young Indians, along with a video series ‘HerPoliticalJourney’ that will focus on women political leaders.
Twitter launches election info prompt for Assembly polls
March 15, 2021
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With the Assembly elections taking place in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Puducherry in the coming days, Twitter India has launched a dedicated search prompt in six languages with the Election Commission of India and the State Election Commissions.
A press release by Twitter India said that information search prompt makes it easy to find credible and authoritative information about candidate lists, voting dates, polling booths, and EVM voter registration, among other election-related topics.
Multi-language prompt
The ‘election information prompt’ will be active in Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Assamese, Hindi, and English, supporting more than 20 hashtags.