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Twitter’s First Trump Fact Check On Mail-In Voting Was ‘Misleading,’ Other Tweets Ignored

Emily Zanotti
Twitter’s First Trump Fact Check On Mail-In Voting Was ‘Misleading,’ Other Tweets Ignored
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Late Tuesday, Twitter issued its first “fact-check” of President Donald Trump’s tweets, correcting a missive about mail-in voting and its connection to vote fraud, but watchdogs say Twitter’s first attempt at warning users about the President’s content was “misleading” itself, and criticized the social media platform for ignoring other concerning tweets.

Trump tweeted, Tuesday, that “there is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In-Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” and that “mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.” The president also claimed that California, which recently rolled out a universal mail-in ballot push, would be mailing ballots to “anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there.”

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