Twitter flags President Trump’s tweets about ballot-counting
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter flagged four tweets from President Trump on Saturday morning for making potentially misleading claims about an election," a company spokesperson said, continuing its attempts to try to rein in misinformation on its platform.
The president tweeted, without evidence, that tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor thin states." He claimed thousands of votes were illegally not allowed to be OBSERVED," and said bad things took place," during a time when LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed."
The platform labeled a fifth tweet where the president claimed he had won the election by a...