US Elections, Trump Tweets: “Stop the Count”

Published on: 05/11/2020 6:00 PM

“Stop counting!” This is what President Donald Trump asks in a tweet, as he continues to count the votes in the few key states that remain to define the results of the elections and assign the electoral votes necessary to the two candidates to reach the fateful quota of 270 “Any vote arrived after the election day will not be counted,” adds Trump with another twitter, which Twitter considers “controversial and could be misleading as to how to participate in the elections or other means of involving citizens.”

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has changed communication tactics to pave the way for appeals in public opinion. The content of the posts on Twitter and Facebook, but also of the 9 million messages sent to Americans’ smartphones between midnight and noon yesterday has changed: from contesting the vote by mail to that of the scutinium process.

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Trump, his children and his entourage have re-launched conspiracy theories more forcefully in the voting process to accuse Democrats of fraud in the final round of counting at the same hours that the Democratic candidate recovered yesterday in several key states. Hand in hand with conspiracy posts, threats of legal proceedings were advanced to stop the count with the slogan Stop the Steal.

They are preparing the ground for possible lawsuits against voting by mail, but also against the voting process, explained Joan Donovan, director of the Harvard University Technology and Social Change Research Project, in an interview with the Washington Post.

Twitter deleted yesterday and reported at least eight tweets posted or relaunched by the president or his campaign despite the fact that they had already been widely viewed. Facebook has tagged nine with content fixes. Eric Trump re-released a video of QAnon’s theory of someone burning letters on behalf of his father, which on close inspection turned out to be easy.

Also in this case, Twitter suspended the account that had published them. Others, including White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, wrote that Trump had won Pennsylvania. And this message was also labeled as false. Messages sent to smartphones accused Democrats of stealing the election, asking for donations to help with legal fees to challenge the election result. “FIGHT AGAINST” the slogan along with “Stop the Steal”.

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