Twitter Tags Donald Trump’s Tweet For Incitement Of Double Voting
Back to the bad spotlight! Yesterday President Donald Trump received his second Nobel Peace Prize nomination for brokering the peace deal between the nations of Kosovo and Serbia. Along with that came about a load of praises and appreciation – and now Trump is one more time being criticized for violating Twitter's Civic Integrity Policy.
In the recent case, the POTUS’ tweet was banned by Twitter because the tweet could be likened to encouragement to people of America to vote two times to choose their leader.
The tweet that is making headlines in the country is, in fact, suggestive of double voting.
Trump tweeted to urge people of North Carolina to vote and it came out a little differently, or probably it was intended to give out that kind of sense.
Via his tweet, the Head of State said that everyone who belongs to the US state of North Carolina must make sure that their ballot counts and “sign & send it in EARLY.” Trump further wrote to motivate people to go to their polling places to see if their vote was counted when polls are active and vote and make sure that the counting is done properly. “Your signed Ballot will not count because your vote has been posted. Don’t let them illegally take your vote away from you!.”
One of the tweets in the thread responded to Trump’s tweet stating that it’s illegal to vote twice in the state of North Carolina. As obvious, the microblogging website couldn’t be the house to a message that’s against the general interest of people, and hence, it banned the tweet with immediate effect.
Twitter also explained it’s the decision to tag President Trump’s tweet with its own post on the platform.
In the statement, Twitter said that the organization placed a “public interest notice” on the President’s recent tweet for the violation of Twitter’s Civic Integrity Policy – by motivating voters to potentially vote twice. The microblogging platform further added on to say that it was a necessary step taken to protect the Twitter community of people from any kind of encouragement that leads to illegality in the context of voting.
Trump’s Twitter account has been a regular source of a wide variety of controversies. It’s not new, but an attempt to astray voters from the President is not, in any form, a relevant activity. The opposition is, by all means, going to react to it.