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The company put the label under two tweets Trump posted, alleging that mail-in ballots will be "substantially fraudulent" and lead to a "Rigged Election" without proven evidence.
....living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
The company, for what seems the first time, put a label reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” which leaders users to an article written by Twitter titled “Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud.” The section features a “what you need to know” area as well as a quote saying "These claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post, and others.”
"Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud,” Twitter shares.
The president tweeted that Twitter is “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election.”
“They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post,” Trump tweeted.
“Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen.”
....Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
Trump’s campaign is also reacting, campaign manager Brad Parscale accusing Twitter of anti-conservative bias.
"We always knew that Silicon Valley would pull out all the stops to obstruct and interfere with President Trump getting his message through to voters. Partnering 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," Parscale wrote.