{"id":2163,"date":"2020-05-27T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:04:40","slug":"twitter-labels-trumps-tweets-on-voting-fraud-with-a-fact-check-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/twitter-labels-trumps-tweets-on-voting-fraud-with-a-fact-check-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter labels Trump\u2019s tweets on voting fraud with a fact check for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of tweets by President Donald Trump that boosted unsubstantiated claims about voting fraud on Tuesday, has been flagged by Twitter.<\/p>\n

For the first time, Twitter added fact-check labels to President Trump’s tweets 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 president\u2019s feed.<\/p>\n

Twitter’s label does not directly declare the tweets false, but points anyone reading them to news reports that contradict the president’s assertions<\/p>\n

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The action comes as the tech company faces rising pressure to crack down on the president\u2019s Twitter account, which in recent days has posted a\u00a0flurry of baseless tweets<\/a>\u00a0riling 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

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POLITICO<\/a> reported that 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 Trump\u2019s 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