Twitter Flags Donald Trump's Tweets About Surprise Ballot Dumps As Misleading
Twitter came under fire from Trump supporters for openly backing Joe Biden's son Hunter by restricting users from sharing a New York Post article that revolved around the Biden family's foreign business ties. Keeping in line with that, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate last month, and now, the company has flagged President Donald Trump's tweet again.
Taking to his Twitter account on Wednesday, the president complained about what he deemed as surprise ballot dumps after ballot counts in the Rust Belt indicated that his lead in those states was shrinking. In addition to this claim, Trump made a myriad of other unsupported allegations that Twitter instantly labeled as "misleading," Fox News reported.
In his tweet, the POTUS pointed out that he was solidly leading in multiple key states; in nearly all instances, Democrats run and controlled. He went to complain those leads began to disappear one by one without any sort of a valid explanation during the surprise ballot dumps. He concluded the tweet by describing this event as very strange and accusing the pollsters of getting it completely, historically wrong.
As expected, Democrats, backed by media outlets, came forward to dispute Trump's claims. This was followed by Twitter flagging the aforesaid tweet, as well as a slew of others, attributing its action to the content in those tweets being disputed and could be misleading about the presidential election or similar civic process. Twitter added a link below the tweet that Twitteratis could click to learn about this year's election security efforts.
The popular social media platform flagged nearly four tweets from the president on Wednesday, including a tweet he shared, one tweet before 1 a.m., and another tweet about Pennsylvania and Michigan votes. This did not stop Trump, who tweeted again about ballots in the two states; however, Twitter had not flagged them initially.
As of 11 a.m ET Wednesday, it was still unclear who won the presidential election, with the race likely to come down to three key states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, which appear to be extremely close and have not been called yet. Particularly in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the president's lead has become slim as mail-in ballots continue to be counted.
Trump and Republicans have repeatedly raised concerns about mail-in ballots and what they describe as the potential for fraud. On Wednesday, Trump appeared for a news conference, demanding that the voting should stop. He explained that they do not want them to find ballots at about 4 a.m. and add them to the list.