Published 12:30 IST, September 18th 2020
Twitter flags Trump's tweet yet again; attaches warning label on mail-in voting post
Twitter placed a warning label on a post by US President Trump, saying his tweet included potentially misleading information about the mail-in voting process.
Micro-blogging website Twitter, on September 17, placed a warning label on a post by US President Donald Trump, saying his tweet included potentially misleading information about the mail-in voting process. While Trump wrote that the November 3 election result ‘may never be accurately determined’, Twitter placed a warning label which redirected users to a curated page, ‘Voting by mail is legal and safe, experts and data confirm’. The page also contained more information on mail-in voting.
While the US presidential election just around the corner, Trump in the recent months has assailed voting process without evidence. The US President has said that the mail-in ballots could result in widespread fraud, even though millions of Americans have cast absentee ballots by mail for years without such problems.
Trump’s tweet ‘violates Twitter rules’
This is not the first time that Twitter has attached labels to tweets posted and shared by Trump as previously the micro-blogging website did add fact-checking notices on his posts. Twitter has faced fierce scrutiny from the Trump administration as back in May, Twitter prompted readers to check the facts in Trump’s tweet about unsubstantiated claims of mail-in voting fraud.
Earlier this month, the social media site also removed a post spreading false information of COVID-19 pandemic after Trump retweeted the claim that discounted the actual death toll of the disease in the US. Twitter removed the post and now displays a message saying, it “is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” Company’s spokesperson reportedly said that the tweet had violated the company’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.
Updated 12:29 IST, September 18th 2020