For the first time, Twitter has flagged some of President Donald Trump’s tweets with a fact-check warning.
On Tuesday, Twitter added links to two of Trump’s tweets in which he had posted about mail-in ballots and falsely claimed that they would cause the November presidential election to be “rigged.”
Twitter’s link directs users to a page on which Mr Trump’s claims about mail-in ballots are described as “unsubstantiated”. The social media company cites reporting on the issue by CNN, the Washington Post and others.
This is followed by a “what you need to know” section where Twitter corrects what it says are false claims by Trump.
In a statement, Twitter said Trump’s vote-by-mail tweets “contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots.”
Twitters policy forbids sharing “false or misleading information intended to intimidate or dissuade people from participating in an election or other civic process.”
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In a tweet, Trump replied twitter saying that the company is “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election” and added, in another post, that it was “completely stifling free speech”. “Federal law protects the rights of internet platforms to moderate the third-party speech they publish,” he added.
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