Twitter Adds Fact-Checking Feature to Some of Trump’s Tweets
Twitter is taking action to address what the company says is “potentially misleading information” in some of President Donald Trump’s tweets. “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than…
Twitter is taking action to address what the company says is “potentially misleading information” in some of President Donald Trump’s tweets.
“There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.
He added, “Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.”
By Tuesday evening, Twitter had added a fact-checking feature to Trump’s tweet that read, “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” with a link that led user to a series of tweets and news stories with information about mail-in ballots.
The fact-checking feature also included a “What you need to know” section with background information about Trump’s tweets.
A spokesperson for Twitter told The Washington Post that the tweets “contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots.”
Last week, Trump threatened to withhold funding to states if they expand access to mail-in ballots, as IJR reported.
“State of Nevada ‘thinks’ that they can send out illegal vote by mail ballots, creating a great Voter Fraud scenario for the State and the U.S.,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday.