The Twitter post on Tuesday described President Donald Trump' s two tweets containing false claims about the vote by mail as 'potentially deceptive.'
The branding was placed on two Trump tissues shared on Tuesday morning fake alleging that "postal votes will be something short of illegal," leading to "rigid election." California's attempts to increase mail-in voting due to the latest pandemic of Coronavirus tweets is mainly the subject of the tweets. On Sunday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was challenged by the Republican National Committee over efforts to expand postal voting.
There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
The tweets "contain potentially misleading data regarding voting processes and have been labeled to provide an additional context for mail ballots," according to a Twitter spokesman. When a user sees trump's tweets, they are joined by the Twitter link that says: "Get the facts about mail ballots."
Twitter writes at top of the screening page: "Trump has falsely suggested that mail-in elections would result in 'a rigged contest.' However, screening experts agree that there is no evidence that mail-in voting is related to voter fraud."
A Twitter spokesperson has confirmed that this change is consistent with a new strategy adopted earlier this month that aims to reduce the pandemic's "distribution of potentially dangerous and deceptive content" The same was not true of the president's twitter earlier this month which reported, according to a The Verge article last week, that hydroxychloroquine has been shown to treat COVID-19 effectively.
For the last few day, Trump's efforts to increase mail-in voting during this pandemic hit Democratically Controlled states such as California. Last week, Trump vowed to strip Michigan of federal funds, after the state secretary of state had sent all eligible electors absent ballots. "I would challenge Michigan to seek funds if they want to follow the Voter Fraud route," Trump tweeted.
The only ones earning the mark are the two most recent California tweets.
