{"id":149948,"date":"2020-05-27T04:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/in-a-first-twitter-adds-fact-check-labels-to-trump-tweets-on-voting-fraud\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T04:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:40:42","slug":"in-a-first-twitter-adds-fact-check-labels-to-trump-tweets-on-voting-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/in-a-first-twitter-adds-fact-check-labels-to-trump-tweets-on-voting-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, Twitter adds fact-check labels to Trump tweets on voting fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Twitter for the first time added fact-check labels to a pair of tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump that boosted unsubstantiated claims about voting fraud on Tuesday, a move that comes as the social media network faces intense scrutiny of its handling of the presidents feed.<\/p>\n<p>Twitters label does not directly declare the tweets false, but points anyone reading them to news reports that contradict the presidents assertions.<\/p>\n<p>The action comes as the tech company faces rising pressure to crack down on the presidents Twitter account, which in recent days has posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/26\/review-trumps-many-unsubstantiated-allegations-voter-fraud\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flurry of baseless tweets<\/a> riling fears about widespread voter fraud and a series of posts stoking conspiracy theories about the death of a former staffer to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough when he served in Congress. Twitter said earlier Tuesday that it would not take down the tweets about the deceased staffer.<\/p>\n<p>The two missives \u2014 in which Trump claimed earlier Tuesday without evidence that mail-in ballots in California are likely to be \u201csubstantially fraudulent\u201d \u2014 now display a notice directing Twitter users to \u201cGet the facts about mail-in ballots.\u201d The label links to a Twitter events page that notes that Trumps claims \u201care unsubstantiated,\u201d citing news outlets including CNN and the Washington Post, and adds, \u201cExperts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter spokesperson Katie Rosborough said in an email to POLITICO that the posts \u201ccontain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots.\u201d Rosborough confirmed it is the first time the company has added such a message to any Trump tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign put out a statement calling the move evidence of \u201cpolitical bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always knew that Silicon Valley would pull out all the stops to obstruct and interfere with President Trump getting his message through to voters,\u201d said Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale in the statement. \u201cPartnering with the biased fake news media fact checkers is only a smoke screen Twitter is using to try to lend their obvious political tactics some false credibility. There are many reasons the Trump campaign pulled all our advertising from Twitter months ago, and their clear political bias is one of them.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the former Scar<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/in-a-first-twitter-adds-fact-check-labels-to-trump-tweets-on-voting-fraud\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Twitter for the first time added fact-check lab..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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