The Associated Press has updated its social media guidelines on retweeting, reminding staffers to button it up when it comes to their own opinions. Excerpts:
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.
However, we can judiciously retweet opinionated material if we make clear we’re simply reporting it, much as we would quote it in a story.
