- For the first time, a warning label has been added to misleading tweets posted from President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
- The warning label includes a link to a new page debunking Trump claims about mail-in voting ballots.
- President Trump went on to blast Twitter for the move — on Twitter.
There are three certainties in life that we know will never change. The twin realities of death and taxes — those are the two everybody already understood — but let’s go ahead and add a third to the list: It’s that Twitter, President Trump’s favorite social network, is absolutely terrible at handling and responding to the vicissitudes, freakouts, line-crossing, white lies, half-truths, and outright falsehoods delivered with breathtaking speed by its most high-profile user. And the step the company took on Tuesday, adding a warning label for the first time to posts from President Trump’s Twitter account, only reinforces that fact.
A quick recap, for those of you not aware: On Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted the following: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.” Beneath that tweet, Twitter added a label in blue that reads: “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.”
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