OAKLAND, Calif. – Twitter hid one of President Trump’s tweets behind a message warning users that the message violated corporate rules against evading people to vote. Mr. Trump placed the tweetje, who said ballot drop boxes were not being sanitized to prevent the coronavirus and could be used for fraud, about five hours before Twitter took action on Sunday.
Twitter has begun to tighten its rules against Mr. Trump as he approaches the presidential election. In May, Twitter added fact-check labels to two of Mr. Tweet’s tweets. Trump that contained incorrect information about voting via mail.
Twitter escalated its efforts on Sunday, hiding Mr Trump’s message behind a warning saying it “wrote the Twitter rules on citizen and electoral integrity.” Twitter also restricted other users from sharing, liking, or replying to the tweet, a move intended to prevent the message from spreading.
“We are posting a public interest message on this Tweet for violating our civil integrity policies to create misleading health requirements that could potentially mislead people from participating in the vote,” Twitter said. tweeted. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter’s recent attempt to escape when Mr. Trump posted misinformation was met with condemnation by the president and his allies, who accused Twitter of suppressing conservative votes.
In late May, Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing federal regulators to harm companies on social media such as Twitter and consider the legal protections that protect them from liability for what is posted on their platforms.
“They have had uncontrollable power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter, virtually any communication between private citizens or large public audiences,” said Mr. Trump during the signing of the executive order.
The executive order faces legal challenges and can be difficult to enforce.
The 2016 presidential election remained a problem for companies on social media, as they learned that foreign interference was widespread on their platforms. Twitter, Facebook and other major companies have recently met to discuss election safety. On Facebook, employees discussed interview plans and scenarios for mail selection, including attempts by Mr. Trump as his campaign to use the platform to delegitimize the results.
