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Home / News / Technology News / In a first, Twitter flags Trump's tweets as 'potentially misleading'
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In a first, Twitter flags Trump's tweets as 'potentially misleading'

In a first, Twitter flags Trump's tweets as 'potentially misleading'
Written by Shubham Sharma
May 27, 2020, 02:19 pm 2 min read
In a first, Twitter flags Trump's tweets as 'potentially misleading'

Twitter has been working aggressively towards flagging and removing misinformation around COVID-19 and the upcoming US Presidential elections. Now, in the wake of these efforts, the microblogging giant has put up a fact-checking warning on two of President Donald Trump's tweets. This is the first time the site has flagged the President's statement as 'potentially misleading'. Here's more about it.

Issue
President's false claims about mail-in voting

On Tuesday, Trump made "false claims" pertaining to California's move to expand mail-in voting due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent," he said, noting that "Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed," resulting in "a rigged election."

Twitter Post
Here are the tweets

....living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
Action
Soon, Twitter flagged the tweets with a fact-checking warning

After President tweeted, Twitter flagged both the posts with a warning label showing an exclamation mark and asking the viewers to "get the facts about mail-in ballots". It had a link that redirected the readers to a page that described Trump's claims as "unsubstantiated" and detailed all the facts about mail-in voting, sourced from credible fact-checkers and renowned publications.

Correction
False claims were also corrected

The fact-checking page also had a section where Twitter debunked the misleading claims from the President. "Trump falsely claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to 'a Rigged Election.' However, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud," the company said. It also noted that "only registered voters will get the ballots" and not what the President said.

Reaction
Evidently, Trump was not happy

After Twitter's action, Trump targeted the platform, claiming that it is "completely stifling free speech, and I, as president, will not allow it to happen". He accused the social media giant of interfering in the US presidential election and said "they are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots... is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post."

Twitter's stance
Twitter, meanwhile, is holding its ground

Despite Trump's response, Twitter has held its ground, with a company spokesperson saying that the tweets "contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots." The representative said the action has been taken under a new company policy that aims to prevent "the spread of potentially harmful and misleading content."

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Editor with over five years of experience in covering all things science, consumer tech, space tech, AI, infosec, and business. A commerce graduate from University of Lucknow. I have been handling Tech beat at NewsBytes since 2018.
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