Twitter says it flagged 3,00,000 'misleading' US election tweets including Trump's

On vember 12, Twitter anunced that it labeled 300,000 tweets related to 2020 US presidential election that was "potentially misleing”. flagged content me up to 0.2 percent of all US election-related posts, microblogging company said in a statement. labels were issued between October 27 and vember 11 and included 456 tweets, including tweets by US President Donald Trump that displayed warning mess for a limited engment. 

Twitter started labelling tweets after an onslaught of misleing and unverified claims were launched by Republican Party and US President Trump who claimed that Democrats “stole elections” in “fraud.” Republican politicians and conservatives tweeted unsubstantiated claims about mail-in ballot-rigging as Twitter quickly scrambled to flag most of those high-profile false claims me on VIP verified accounts. Under its Civic integrity policy that Twitter put in place to combat misinformation about electoral process, microblogging warned t to use Twitter’s services for purpose of manipulating or interfering in election results. “Any attempts to undermine integrity of our service is antitical to our fundamental rights and undermines core tenets of freedom of expression, value upon which our company is based,” Twitter said in a release outlining its election policies. 

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Flagged with disclaimers

More than half of US President’s tweets were flagged with disclaimers after his democratic contender Joe Biden was projected a winner. “This claim about election fraud is disputed,” Twitter mentioned in a disclaimer as it flagged Trump’s election fraud tweet within 15 minutes after it was shared at 9:49 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. This included a link to Twitter’s detailed company policy about flagging to combat misinformation.

company flagged ar tweet where Trump said, “Democrat-run & controlled” h “started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE.” Meanwhile, a tweet from Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler who declared a premature win for Biden was also flagged by Twitter. Tweets labeled as misleing or flagged with a warning mess reduced engment or re-quoting by about 29 percent. Twitter reminded citizens in a disclaimer that "election results were likely to be delayed, and that voting by mail is safe and legitimate,” at least 389 times. 

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