It was the pandemic, Twitter says, that freed the company to attach fact-check warnings to a pair of Trump’s tweets
Twitter says the coronavirus outbreak prompted it to re-evaluate its approach to these gray-area tweets and treat some of them as potentially dangerous.“We now have the tools in place to label content that may contain misleading claims that could cause offline harm,” said Rosborough. Those tools include the warning labels attached to Trump’s tweets that link to a Twitter “Moment,” or collection of content, explaining objections to his post.
On Tuesday, Twitter added warning labels to two Trump tweets claiming, without evidence, that mail-in ballots, like those being used in California amid the pandemic, are likely to be “substantially fraudulent.” The labels directed users to a link to "get the facts about mail-in ballots.” The company has made other recent moves in the political arena meant to inoculate it against complaints that it’s destabilizing democracy in the United States but that have also served to anger some on the right, includingThe coronavirus lesson for Twitter was that the company’s trust and safety team, which is charged with taking action on inappropriate posts, could selectively challenge tweets that don’t violate its stated rules —that gets tweets deleted for specific behaviors like encouraging...
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