An estimated 300,000 tweets related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election were flagged for misleading content, according to an update issued by Twitter this week.
“Approximately 300,000 Tweets have been tagged under our Civic Integrity Policy for content that was disputed and potentially misleading,” announced Twitter in its Nov. 12 update on electoral policy, Sputnik reported.
“These represent 0.2 percent of all US election-related tweets sent during this time period,” the microblogging site said.
The warnings were implemented on October 27 and were in effect until November 11, a week before and after the November 3 presidential elections, respectively, according to Sputnik.
Twitter marked at least 50 tweets and retweets issued by US President Donald Trump to his nearly 89 million followers in the two-week period.
The platform’s effort to combat the spread of misinformation about the elections also included the addition of “pre-bunk” notices backed by data provided by a number of “official sources.”
The US electoral period experienced a very chaotic atmosphere, with a very close fight between Trump and President-elect Joe Biden, with Trump’s refusal to admit defeat.
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