Twitter called 300,000 tweets to the US presidential election “potentially misleading” in the two weeks surrounding the vote, representing 0.2 percent of polling places, the company said Thursday.
The social network said the tags were issued between October 27 and November 11, a week before and after the November 3 US presidential election, which Democrat Joe Biden won over incumbent Donald Trump.
Of the 300,000 flagged tweets, 456 were covered by a warning message and had limited engagement features: Users couldn’t like, retweet, or reply to posts, said Vijaya Gadde, head of legal, policy, and trust and security at Twitter, on a blog. Send.
He estimated that 74 percent of the people who viewed the problematic tweets did so after being tagged as misleading or flagged with a warning message, and as a result, post sharing decreased by about 29 percent.
During the election period, Twitter posted messages on US user pages that were viewed 389 million times that “reminded people that the election results would likely be delayed and that voting by mail is safe and legitimate,” added Gadde. .
Almost half of Trump’s tweets were flagged by the platform in the days after the elections, as the president claimed, without evidence, that he had won and that the process had been affected by massive fraud.
[AFP]
Almost half of Trump’s tweets were flagged by the platform in the days after the elections, as the president claimed, without evidence, that he had won and that the process had been affected by massive fraud.