Family of woman at centre of a conspiracy theory say Twitter didn't go far enough That's despite the woman's widower pleading with Twitter to remove them for furthering the false claims. The company had refused to take action on other tweets from the President, which have fuelled a murder conspiracy theory about the death of a former congressional staff member two decades ago. Loading Twitter content How does Twitter decide what to fact-check?Ī Twitter spokesman said the fact-checked tweets had been singled out because they related to election integrity. Mr Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale condemned the response. It's too soon to tell whether this action represents a turning point for Twitter in its treatment of Mr Trump, but the warning labels suggest the President crossed a line the company was not willing to move for him. The company said at the time it would later extend the policy on disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 to other topics.
It was part of the company's new "misleading information" policy introduced this month to combat misinformation about the coronavirus. Twitter confirmed this was the first time it had applied a fact-checking label to a tweet by the President. Twitter has never fact-checked a President before The more recent tweets singled out the governor of California over the issue, although the state is not the only one to use mail-in ballots. Mr Trump, who has more than 80 million followers on the platform, later deleted the tweet and posted an edited version that still threatened to hold up federal funds. The storm of tweets about mail-in ballots followed posts on the the President's Facebook and Twitter accounts last week that wrongly claimed Michigan's secretary of state mailed ballots to 7.7 million registered voters.
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