Almost half of Donald Trump’s tweets were reported in the days following the election. (Representative)
Washington:
Twitter called 3,00,000 US presidential election-related tweets “potentially misleading” in the two weeks surrounding the vote, representing 0.2% of election-related posts, the company said Thursday.
The social network said the labels were released between October 27 and November 11, a week before and after the November 3 US presidential election – which Democrat Joe Biden won over incumbent President Donald Trump.
Of the 300,000 tweets reported, 456 were covered by a warning message and had limited engagement features – users could not like, retweet or reply to the messages, said Vijaya Gadde, Head of Legal, Policy and Trust and Security from Twitter, in a blog post.
She estimated that 74% of people who saw the problematic tweets did so after being labeled as misleading or flagged with a warning message, and message sharing, as a result, declined by around 29%.
During the election period, Twitter posted messages on US user pages that were viewed 389 million times that “reminded people that election results are subject to delay and that mail voting is safe and legitimate “, added Gadde.
Nearly half of Trump’s tweets were flagged by the platform in the days following the election, with the president claiming, without proof, that he had won and that the process had been marred by massive fraud.
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