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Twitter has been taking a number of steps to stop the spread of false information. This year, the company issued a statement to underline that the political leaders present on the platform are not above the rules and it was even a video shared by Donald Trump’s account that was the first to win a tag for manipulated content. The decision did not please the US president, who even threatened to regulate or even close this social network.
Since then, Twitter has created a series of tags to contextualize tweets of this type, with the elections last November being the ones that led the technology company to be especially attentive to publications on the subject. The US president’s account was one of the most scrutinized and continues to be, as he continues to contest the results, claiming that his defeat is due to electoral fraud.
As a result, Trump has also claimed that he won the election, so Twitter decided to create a more explicit tag to remind users that the winner of the 2020 presidential election was actually Joe Biden. A company spokesperson explains that the signage reflects the latest official information on the elections.
By clicking on the tag, it takes us to a page about the elections, where we can learn, in more detail, the results, through a series of news written by reliable media.
Note that the label came in response to another tweet in which Trump says he won the election and after YouTube said that it is preparing to remove videos created to contest the election results. In both cases, the waterline appears to be the same: now that Biden’s victory has been made official by the electoral authorities, any content that seeks to spread false information about the event will be quickly combated.
It is recalled that Twitter decided not to expel elected politicians for spreading rumors and unconfirmed information in the performance of their duties. However, once the deadline expires, on January 20, this official statute will be repealed and it is possible that Trump will end up having his account suspended if he continues in the same line of charges.
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