Twitter has placed a fact-checking warning on a tweet issued by President Trump in which he claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent.
Brad Parscale, Trump's 2020 campaign manager, suggested Twitter was attempting to impinge on the president's free speech rights and accused the company of being anti-Trump. Tuesday's action allowing users to"get the facts" about what Trump was tweeting comes just as the social media platform faces criticism for its inaction on a tweet Trump sent advancing a groundless conspiracy theory about the death of an ex-staffer of Joe Scarborough, a former congressman who is now a television host on MSNBC and frequent Trump target.
Despite the plea, Twitter has not removed the tweet advancing the false conspiracy theory about the death of Klausutis' wife, who had an undiagnosed heart condition, passed out and hit her head on her desk when she fell. Dorsey never directly replied to the widower's letter. The president's comments about Scarborough have also been posted to Facebook, which has 2.6 billion users.
About time!!!
About time Twitter but too late for me. I am leaving because you failed to remove the president's hateful tweets regarding the possible involvement of Joe Scarborough in the young women's demise despite her grieving husbands plea to do so. Really, have you no compassion? Good bye
what was fact checked was supported by both democrats and republicans at different times. Anomaly tells the whole story.
Whose putting a fact check on twitters’s fact checkers?
Twitter TwitterSupport did it once. Are they ever going to it again?
TwitterSupport Twitter TwitterRetweets 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Stop the idiotinthewhitehouse please! POTUS 🐀💩🚽🦠🤢🤮☠️😷
Right, because no one else has EVER sent a misleading Tweet before?
Twitter has checked☝️and mango mussolini is already loosing his shit. Someone check his diaper 🤣
Good job, twitter! :-)
What a joke.
CmiloseMilose Twitter thanks Twitter! Remember, he is one man ( and a pretty bad one at that), but WE are many!
Thank you Twitter
YES!!!!!
Trump campaign pulled their ads from Twitter? They need a platform where they can spread misinformation I guess.
Just add this to any Trump tweet... 'Facts: none' Twitter Jack
Good luck keeping up with that Twitter
Finally.
Yay Twitter - about time!!
twitter is owned by trump supporters. this means literally nothing.
And his first reaction is to threaten to put them out of business. If there is anybody who actually 'can't handle the truth', it's our snowflake of a president. VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare
Ok, CCP bots.
Jack fact checking is a good beginning, but other accounts have been suspended for much less than what realDonaldTrump is getting away with! We're watching!!!
This makes me very proud of you Twitter ! 👏🤟✌🤘🤙👍👌 realDonaldTrump 🖕
Yeah the rest of us would get our accounts suspended but jack thinks it's great for business when the most powerful man in the world spews lies and conspiracy theories to rot stupid people's brains.
Despite what Deplorables want you to think, there is nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t fact check someone. It holds that a person can say what they want. But it does not say anywhere that that statement can’t be fact checked. Prove me wrong, I’ll wait...
Liberals and their word salad. Suddenly political rhetoric totally ok all over Twitter is a 'misleading fact' that justifies Soviet Style censorship.
Bull crap 💩
What took them so long to red flag this malicious sociopathic liar?
The only thing misleading is the fact-check article itself. Don't put BS known propaganda articles and try to say its fact. CNN wouldn't know a fact if it slapped them in the face
Twitter is now actively influencing the election. It's election interference.
Hahaha, I see Twitter will be creating a few more jobs in the foreseeable future.... factsmatter
Why doesn’t Twitter put a fact-check warning on NPR’s tweet because NPR is TOTALLY WRONG when saying that what Trump said was misleading. That’s BS. Trump was right and Twitter knows it!!!!!!!!!!!
ZoomJenny Interesting. TL
Twitter's significantly biased toward the far left. Of course anything pres. trump says or anyone else will be labeled as misleading Twitter
It’s about dam time
Too little, too late from twitter.
Good for them. The rest of you news organizations need to stop dancing around the facts. Trump is a lier, dont call it something else. Call it for what it is, a lie.
time to regulate social media
It is long overdue.
Johnny-come-lately?
😂😂
Why the need? Is he correct more often than the typical politician? Don't most people just assume they're lying anyway?
Twitter should contract this work out to Daniel Dale!
Ah, well, they put a warning on one. One. Ok. And today, tomorrow? He just within the hour tweeted the same thing you put a warning on and threatened to shut twitter down. TrumpMeltdown TrumpPandemicFailure
And yet, The person in charge of institutional screening for facts at Twitter has himself posted anti-Trump bias multiple times. Proven in his own Twitter feed. No bias here… Just. Walk. Away.
Maher48Hours This is going to be a test of man-child v machine 😂😂😂 Trump possibly speaking enough frothing lies to break the system
JoeBiden opens his campaign repeating a debunked lie. No fact check. Numerous DNC and GOP spin or lie. No fact checks. It doesn't take foreign interference to destroy our Democratic Republic. It takes Leftist Democrats. It is pure censorship applauded by 'journalists'
One wonders just where the hell was twitter when the Democrats and the media was pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax. Twitter is now a publisher and needs to be treated as one...with all the legal jeopardy that goes along with it. Twitter lawyers...get ready for the onslaught.
if only twitter would do the same for NPR.
The problem lies in the little fact that his statement was TRUE !
There needs to be more done but this is a start. Country over profits isn't popular but it needs to be. That, above all, is the reason why we're in this mess in the first place.
Let’s see if Twitter posts the same warning on any liberal tweets. Oh, that’s right, Dems never lie or stretch the truth. Just ask them!
Is this fact check label only visible when using Twitter on the computer? I don’t see it when using the platform via phone.
About fucking time
Not enough. Lock SCUMP up!
Twitter should b fact checking the MediaKnats such as npr n other media outlets, networks, journalists n reporters. Providing some media report as fact checking is bull💩!
KidsMuseumCEO Slippery slope
Thank you Twitter
Did you report that the person on Twitter in charge of this is a liberal Trump hater and all things conservative. He's not even trying to hide his bias.
FINALLY... Its a message to all media that cover Trump. DO THE SAME. Expose his lies. He is killing us & every one of our institutions. He gaslights us every day... all so he can pretend-play at being prez & being powerful. Call him out. Protect your country. Protect us.
Good. They should do it EVERY time the jerk lies.
Thank you
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So, twitter gives trump a pass on his false and malicious Lori klausutis claims and believes calling him out on misleading vote by mail tweets is a make up call? Yeah, they do.
Way past over due. He should have been kicked off, years ago, ny their own 'standards'.
It’s about time.
They fact check using what? New York Times? How many stories of theirs has been tracked? Or reporters jailed? For lying?
Thank you Mr. Trump for negotiating for seniors & cutting insulin costs by 60% for Medicare patients!! - since 1 of 3 seniors have diabetes -- this is a bold move. Also, thx for cutting our monthly Medicare premium.
And Donald did not like it. TrumpMeltdown
The warning was applied by an indoctrinated kid...I have shoes older than this guy...who doesn't have enough education for debate, but does have an extreme bias. Don't you love to watch the liberals melt down?
Of course it does.. It would go against your agenda if he was right..
About time.
Not misleading do your homework...do you job!
Sifill_LDF Twitter is going to need a full time team devoted to factchecking every tweet the current occupant of the whitehouse makes because he fabricates absolutely everything he tweets. trumpisaliar
This tweet is 100% true
facts scare realDonaldTrump Anyone promoting facts are a threat to his immoral compass and subject to his tirades. Efforts for VoterSuppression means fear is setting in. More reason to believe facts tellers like ProjectLincoln rather than TrumpFiction
Why is twitter interfering in our election?
And now Trump want to shut down the social network.
THAT’S a fact-checking warning? I never would have known that. How are the very not smart (trying to be nice) MAGATs supposed to know that? Needs to be a banner across the top of the post in red.
The fact check was false. NPR could perform due diligence and investigate, but instead chose a political side.
If they do that for him they should do it for npr as well.
It's way past about time
MineWorkers responds to defend and support ConorLamb
Let's retroactively fact-check all tweets of users with blue check marks. Then we'll see how everyone feels.
DON’T LET realDonaldTrump LIE!
Shall we all call for this standard to be applied equally to every person and media entity on this platform? Because...Russiagate, WMDs in Iraq, and on and on..
America land of the Karen’s and limited free speech.
'a' tweet.....🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Step up, Twitter. Take some lessons from BotSentinel JusticeForCarolyn Problematic
They'll be busy!
US Post Office is about to OWN Twitter
Even Twitter's posts reflect opinion, so why should not any person's message be entitled to the same liberty?
Update: Donald Trump just threaten to shut down Twitter.
Sifill_LDF But they did nothing on the President tweet accusing JoeNBC of murder who the hell are we kidding?
DonaldTrump 'LIES are also Free Speech.'
About 10 years too late.
Wait and see, Trump will enslave Twitter soon.
Can they also reprimand him for the falsehoods about Conor Lamb?
As soon as he isn’t president anymore they need to remove his account
Private corporations are beginning to silence, and censor, the President of the United States. Editing the informaiton we are allowed to receive from him. We are beginning to see who is really in charge of this 'democracy'. Liberals cheer.
Finally! It’s a bout time Twitter Now we need Facebook to do the same!
At least someone is doing the GOP ‘s job...
They should place it on all his tweets. Period!
Finally! Glad to see Twitter doing the right thing.
it's a small crack, but it's one worth watching develop.
Should just save the time and leave it in as a permanent footer for all his tweets.
He's a liar. He lies on Twitter everyday. There needs to be much more of this.
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