guwahati in a bid to fight misinformation ahead of the assembly elections in assam and other pollbound states twitter on monday launched an information search prompt which will be active in assamese language with the election commission of india and state election commissionsthe search prompt is designed to make it easy to find credible and authoritative information about candidate lists voting dates polling booths and evm electronic voting machine voter registration among other electionrelated topicsit will be active in six languages including assamese bengali tamil malayalam hindi and english supporting more than 20 hashtags twitter saidother initiatives that the microblogging platform announced include a custom emoji to encourage participation a series of prebunks and debunks to tackle electionrelated misinformation and a youth discussion series titled democracyadda aimed at voter literacy and civic participation among young indians for the assembly pollsby leveraging the power of the open internet we are encouraging people across india to be a part of the assemblyelections2021 conversation payal kamat manager public policy government at twitter india said in a statementnone of this would be possible without support from the election commission of india the state election commissions and hope our efforts contribute to healthy and vibrant civic dialogue the statement addedadditionally to put a spotlight on women in indian politics twitter said it will be bringing back herpoliticaljourney a video series where women political leaders talk about their personal stories with leading women news journaliststwitter said it is publishing a series of prebunk prompts across languages including english hindi tamil and bengali based on content by the national and state election commissions and civil society partners such as youth ki awaz association of democratic reforms