{"id":18888,"date":"2020-05-28T05:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/jack-dorsey-explains-why-twitter-fact-checked-trumps-false-voting-claims.html"},"modified":"2020-05-28T05:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:03:27","slug":"jack-dorsey-explains-why-twitter-fact-checked-trumps-false-voting-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/jack-dorsey-explains-why-twitter-fact-checked-trumps-false-voting-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter fact-checked Trump\u2019s false voting claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Twitter <\/a> flagged a pair of President Trump\u2019s tweets with a fact-checking label<\/a> on Tuesday, tensions between the president and his favored social media platform are running high.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey\u2014rarely one to pick a political fight\u2014took to his own platform to clarify the company\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

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Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that\u2019s me. Please leave our employees out of this. We\u2019ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack) May 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Per our Civic Integrity policy (https:\/\/t.co\/uQ0AoPtoCm<\/a>), the tweets yesterday may mislead people into thinking they don\u2019t need to register to get a ballot (only registered voters receive ballots). We\u2019re updating the link on @realDonaldTrump<\/a>\u2019s tweet to make this more clear.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack) May 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In the statement, Dorsey referenced comments Mark Zuckerberg made to Fox News<\/a> contrasting Facebook\u2019s obsessively neutral approach to policing its platform with Twitter\u2019s present situation. \u201cI just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn\u2019t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cPrivate companies\u2026 especially these platform companies, shouldn\u2019t be in the position of doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump\u2019s false voting claims<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dorsey also denounced Trump\u2019s online supporters and surrogates for going after the company\u2019s executives<\/a>, asking the Twitter\u2019s newly energized critics, inspired by Trump\u2019s own ire toward the company, to \u201cplease leave our employees out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Dorsey\u2019s own account and the official Twitter Safety account, the company clarified that its decision to add a fact-checking link to two of Trump\u2019s tweets stemmed specifically from the possibility that they might \u201cconfuse voters about what they need to do to receive a ballot and participate in the election process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We added a label to two @realDonaldTrump<\/a> Tweets about California\u2019s vote-by-mail plans as part of our efforts to enforce our civic integrity policy. We believe those Tweets could confuse voters about what they need to do to receive a ballot and participate in the election process.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) May 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In the tweets the company added a label to<\/a>\u2014but did not hide or remove\u2014the president states falsely that California\u2019s governor is \u201csending ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state no matter who they are or how they got there.\u201d In reality, the state is only sending the ballots to registered voters. Trump also made fear-mongering false claims about the integrity of mail-in voting<\/a>, a system already widely used around the country in the form of absentee ballots.<\/p>\n

With his clarification, Dorsey linked to what Twitter calls its \u201ccivic integrity policy,\u201d a set of rules prohibiting certain kinds of \u201cmanipulative behavior\u201d on the platform. Per those rules, misleading information about how to vote, the documents required to vote or the date and time of an election of other civic process are prohibited. Under the policy, broader claims about elections \u201csuch as unsubstantiated claims that an election is \u2018rigged’\u201d are not prohibited.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s list of possible enforcement actions includes forcing users to delete the tweets, locking their account if the misinformation is present in a bio or permanent suspension \u201cfor severe or repeated violations of this policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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California turns to vote-by-mail to keep residents safe come November<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Though the timing might be coincidental, Tuesday\u2019s move by Twitter came on the heels of a series of tweets from Trump promoting a baseless conspiracy theory<\/a> that MSNBC host and political rival Joe Scarborough was responsible for the death of a Congressional intern almost two decades prior.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday evening, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters the president would soon sign an executive order \u201cpertaining to social media,\u201d widely expected to be a shocking though likely unsubstantial strike back at Twitter\u2019s policy enforcement choices this week. The order may rehash<\/a> the White House\u2019s previous stalled efforts to threaten\u00a0Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act<\/a>\u2014a vital legal provision underpinning the modern internet\u2014and wield power against social media companies through the FTC and FCC.<\/p>\n

Alluding to the expected retaliation, Trump tweeted \u201cStay Tuned!!!\u201d to his more than 80 million followers.<\/p>\n

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Vote-by-mail should be having its moment. Will it?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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