Social-Media
Twitter says President Trump's tweet about mail drop boxes has broken his rules, but will remain visible
Twitter labeled President Trump's tweet calling into question the use of mail drop boxes for the November election. The President claimed, without citing evidence, that the boxes made it possible for a person to vote multiple times, and that they were a safe vote disaster that covid was not sanitized.
Twitter used a Sunday morning tweet mark that states, This tweet breached the Twitter rules on democratic honesty and election fairness. However, Twitter has decided that it could be in the public interest for the Tweet to remain available. A learn more link goes to Twitter's guidelines on exceptions to public interest.
We have put an interstitial public interest on this Tweet for breaching our Civic Integrity Policy, for making false health statements that could potentially dissuade people from voting, the Twitter spokesperson said in a Sunday e-mail to The Verge. We have taken action provided that the Tweet violates our laws, but has kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is vital that the public still be able to see the Tweet as it is related to current issues of public concern.
The interaction with the tweet will be restricted, the spokesperson added: As is usual with this notice, the Tweet commitments will be restricted.
People will be able to retweet with Comment, but they won't be able to Like, Reply or Retweet it.
It's not the first time that one of the President's tweets has been criticized for sharing false details about voting and the election. Twitter branded two tweets from the President's account for making misleading comments about mail-in voting, the first time the site had personally reviewed Trump's messages. The tweets in question falsely claimed that mail-in ballots would be anything less than substantially fraudulent and would result in a rigged election. Twitter called the tweets potentially misleading, adding that, contrary to the truth, there is no proof that mail-in ballots are connected to electoral fraud.
