Twitter Restricts Russian State Media Accounts, Prisoner Of War Content

• Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) will stop amplifying Russian government accounts, asking other government-affiliated media to remove posts featuring prisoners of war, citing international humanitarian law.
• Twitter would add warnings to state-backed accounts’ posts about prisoners when they have a “compelling public interest,” quoting Article 13 of the Geneva Convention III. 
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• Twitter would also mandate the removal of posts from any user, state-linked or not, who posts about prisoners of war with “abusive intent.”
• The micro-blogging website would immediately stop boosting or urging government accounts belonging to states that “limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict.”
• Price Action: TWTR shares traded lower by 1.00% at $50.47 in the premarket on the last check Wednesday.
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