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After multiple sources confirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, Twitter confirmed that it will no longer hide false or misleading tweets about these elections with warning labels, like those that keep quite a few messages sent by President Donald Trump.
The social network announced it in a statement this Sunday, when users must still click to see more than a third of the messages published by the defeated Republican candidate this week, as they warn that “Part or all of the content shared in this tweet is in dispute and could be misleading about an election or other civic process”.
The withdrawal of this measure does not mean that the alerts will also go away, if not thator will be applied to new messages entered the platform.
“We will continue to apply tags to provide additional context in tweets about process integrity and next steps when necessary,” the brief added.
But nevertheless, other stricter protection measures are maintained to the president’s personal account, for example, he cannot delete his tweets “given the significant public interest in knowing and being able to discuss his actions and statements,” according to Twitter’s public interest policy.
“This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for public office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold those positions, “the social network details, therefore, they will not protect Trump after January 20, when he will leave the White House.