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The Associated Press has updated its social media guidelines to include guidance on re-tweeting (when a Twitter user essentially forwards another user’s post with all followers).

The new guidelines warn AP staff to carefully re-tweet so that followers don’t think “you’re expressing a personal opinion on the issues of the day,” Poynter’s Mallary Jean Tenore explained.

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New AP Social Media Guidelines Warn about Re-tweets

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