Social media sites, Facebook, and Twitter have placed warning labels on posts in which President Donald Trump claimed he had won the 2020 election and that Democrats were “trying to steal” his victory.
Late Tuesday night, Facebook put a label beneath Trump’s post in which he declared “a big WIN!” and said he’d be making a statement. The label explained that votes were still being counted and that a winner had not yet been called in the presidential race. The label linked out to a page labeled “Voting Information Center.”
Facebook also labeled a post in which Trump said Democrats were trying to “STEAL the Election.”
“Final results may be different from initial vote counts, as ballot counting will continue for days or weeks,” the label read.
Trump made both of these statements on Twitter, too.
Twitter attached a warning to the president’s tweet claiming the election was being stolen, saying the post contained information that “is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
“We placed a warning on this Tweet for making a potentially misleading claim about an election,” a Twitter spokesperson said. “This action is in line with our Civic Integrity Policy, and as is standard with this warning, we will significantly restrict engagements on this Tweet.”
The civil integrity policy states that users “may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.”
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump fired off these missives after Fox News said Arizona had been called in favor of Democratic nominee Joe Biden. – Original Article, Huff Post
