New Twitter restrictions, warnings before U.S. vote

With U.S. elections now less than a month away - more changes are coming to Twitter in an effort to limit the spread of misinformation and potential violence tied to the crucial vote.

The social network announced in a blogpost Friday it will remove tweets that urge people to interfere with the voting process or vote counting, including through violent means.

And that's not all. Starting next week, users will get a prompt pointing to credible information before they can retweet content that's been flagged as misleading.

Twitter is also gearing up to add more warnings and restrictions on its platform, preparing to slap misleading information labels on tweets from U.S. political figures, candidates and campaigns, U.S. based accounts with more than 100,000 followers and any tweets it deems as having "significant engagement."

In some cases the ability to retweet or reply will be turned off.

Twitter also announced that from October 20th to at least the end of election week, it will take temporary steps to slow the amplification of content.

Social media companies are under pressure to combat election-related misinformation and prepare for the possibility of violence or intimidation at polling places.

Earlier this week, Facebook said it would ban calls for poll watching using "militarized language..."And it would temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral or political ads in the US after the polls close on November 3, “to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse.”

Facebook announced earlier that it is limiting the launch of new political ads the week before election day.

Last year, Twitter took the unusual step of banning all political ads.