Twitter hides Trump tweet for 'dissuading people from voting'
By Caoimhe Toman
Date: Tuesday 25 Aug 2020
(Sharecast News) - Twitter hid one of US President Donald Trump's tweets on Monday warning users that it violated the platform's regulations against dissuading people from voting.
In the tweet, posted on Monday, Trump claimed mail drop boxes are a "voter security disaster" and also said they are "not COVID sanitized."
Twitter's notice on the tweet said that it violated the company's rules about civic and election integrity, but it "determined it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible." Users can still retweet it with comment, but are prevented from liking, replying, or retweeting it alone.
The tweet was flagged specifically for "making misleading health claims that could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting."
It also cited a section from its Civic Integrity Policy, highlighting a line that forbids users from making "misleading claims about process procedures or techniques which could dissuade people from participating" in elections.
Mail-in ballots have become one of the main issues leading up to the November presidential election where Trump will face Democrat candidate Joe Biden.
Despite Trump's warnings that the ballots are not safe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states Covid-19 is spread mostly through close contact from person to person.
This is not the first time that Trump has his tweets flagged or hidden by the platform. Back in May this year, Twitter applied fact-check labels about mail-in ballots to two of Trump's tweets.
Trump responded by signing an executive order targeting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives internet companies legal protections that shield them from liability for user-created content while also giving them power to make moderation decisions.
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