New AP Guidelines For Retweets: No Opinions Allowed From Journalists

The Associated Press has issued new social media guidelines that target their journalists’ tweeting.

Specifically, they’re asking that journalists refrain from including their opinions when they retweet.

“Retweets, like tweets, should not be written in a way that looks like you’re expressing a personal opinion on the issues of the day. A retweet with no comment of your own can easily be seen as a sign of approval of what you’re relaying.”

The AP goes on to say that, when retweeting a news piece that is opinion-based, journalists should use colons and quotations to show that the opinion is coming from the original tweeter.

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