‘Contains potentially misleading information’: Twitter verifies Trump’s tweets
WASHINGTON – Twitter verified and tagged some of President Donald Trump’s posts as misleading on Tuesday.
Trump responded by saying that Twitter was “interfering in the 2020 presidential election.”
Twitter, which has been Trump’s favorite platform for posting unfiltered views to his millions of followers, added a warning phrase under two of his tweets in which the President reiterated unsubstantiated claims about mail ballots, calling them ” fraudulent “and at the same time predicting that” the mailboxes will be stolen “.
The warning phrase says, “Get the data on the ballots by mail.” When clicked on that, a Twitter “moments” page opens that includes news and fact checks on Trump’s claims.
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THERE IS NO WAY (ZERO!) That mail-in ballots are anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mailboxes will be stolen, ballots will be falsified and even illegally printed and fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending ballots to millions of people, to anyone …..
Donald J. Trump
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…. living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, they will get one. Next, the professionals will tell all these people, many of whom have never thought about voting before, how and by whom to vote. This will be a rigorous choice. No way!
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The headline reads: “Trump falsely claimed that mailed ballots would lead to ‘a Rigged Election.'” However, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail ballots are related to voter fraud. “
“Trump falsely claimed that California will mail ballots to ‘anyone who lives in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there.’ In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots. Although Trump targeted California, the ballots by mail they are already used in some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nebraska. “
Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough told USA TODAY that the two tweets “contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been tagged to provide additional context around mail ballots. This decision is in line with the approach that we shared earlier this month. “
The social media platform previously stated that they would start using these “warning labels and messages to provide additional explanations or clarifications in situations where the risks of harm associated with a Tweet are less serious, but the content may confuse or confuse users. people. “
Rosborough said this is the first time Twitter has tagged any of Trump’s posts as misleading.
Trump said the social media site “says my statement in the mail ballots, which will lead to corruption and massive fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and Amazon Washington Post. ….. Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen! “
Donald J. Trump
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. @ Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 presidential election. They say my statement in the mail ballots, which will lead to corruption and massive fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and Amazon Washington Post. ..
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Trump’s labeled tweets in the mail ballots point specifically to California, and come just days after the Republican Party launched a legal battle to prevent California Governor Gavin Newsom from sending all voters in their mail ballots to general elections, arguing that the measure is unconstitutional and invites electoral fraud.
The Republican National Committee, the National Committee of the Republican Congress, and the California Republican Party filed a lawsuit Sunday against Newsom and Secretary of State Alex Padilla in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
In response to Twitter’s decision, Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, wrote in a statement: “We always knew that Silicon Valley would do everything possible to obstruct and interfere with the delivery of President Trump’s message to voters. Partnering with bogus and bogus news media “false verifiers” is just a smokescreen that Twitter is using to try to give its obvious political tactics some false credibility. “
“There are many reasons why the Trump campaign removed all of our Twitter advertising months ago, and its clear political bias is one of them,” he continued.
Twitter’s decision to tag the tweets came shortly after the social media site received criticism after a widower asked them to remove Trump posts seeking to link his wife’s death in 2001 to speak to the presenter. from the Joe Scarborough program, a prominent Trump critic.
Twitter responded with a statement saying it “deeply regrets the pain these statements and the attention they are attracting are causing the family,” but said it would not delete any of Trump’s tweets.
The social networking site has augmented warning labels with questionable information during the coronavirus pandemic.
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