{"id":18870,"date":"2020-05-27T04:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/twitter-adds-a-warning-label-fact-checking-trumps-false-voting-claims.html"},"modified":"2020-05-27T04:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:54:42","slug":"twitter-adds-a-warning-label-fact-checking-trumps-false-voting-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-adds-a-warning-label-fact-checking-trumps-false-voting-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump\u2019s false voting claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the heels of a furor over his tweets accusing MSNBC host Joe Scarborough of murder<\/a>, Twitter has quietly begun to fact-check the president.<\/p>\n

A new label prompting Twitter <\/a> users to \u201cGet the facts about mail-in ballots\u201d appeared on a series of tweets in which the president baselessly claimed ballots received through mail-in voting methods are \u201cfraudulent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In a statement to TechCrunch, a Twitter spokesperson said the pair of tweets<\/a> from the president \u201ccontain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision is in line with the approach we shared earlier this month,\u201d the spokesperson said, linking to the company\u2019s recent blog post<\/a> on its misinformation policies.<\/p>\n

Clicking through the new prompt from Twitter brings users to a fact-checking page debunking the president\u2019s false claims with the header \u201cTrump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud.\u201d The page also offers a summary of the issue with bullet points providing context for the misleading tweets and links to stories by CNN, the Hill, the Washington Post and other news sources. Still, the prompt itself stops short of calling the tweet\u2019s claims incorrect or misleading, instead opting for neutral language.<\/p>\n

Trump has railed against vote-by-mail efforts<\/a> in recent weeks, in spite of the consensus view by experts that voting through the mail is a safe process \u2014 so safe that it\u2019s already widely used for absentee ballots and relied upon in five states as the primary method for voting.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Twitter\u2019s decision to label two of his tweets, Trump attacked the company late Tuesday. In tweets, he accused Twitter of \u201cinterfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,\u201d repeated his debunked claims that mail-in voting is plagued by fraud and threatened the company with unspecified retaliation.<\/p>\n

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\u2026.Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Twitter plans to expand its misinformation labels \u2014 but will they apply to Trump?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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