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Trump shared a video accusing the Los Angeles vote collector of cheating, before being tagged as a warning by Twitter.
The video was shared by President Donald Trump on Twitter on 11/11 with the caption “Take a look at the ballots? Is that what happened in our country?”
The picture shows election officials in Los Angeles County, California, collecting mail-in ballots from a roadside ballot box on November 4, the day after official Election Day. The cameraman expressed doubts as to why the California election results announced the night of November 3 were in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, before these votes were collected.
Video shared by Trump shows election officials in Los Angeles County, California, collecting votes by mail on November 4. Video: Twitter / Donald Trump.
Previously, this video went viral on TikTok and attracted thousands of views with the legend that this is proof that there is vote fraud in California.
Los Angeles County officials confirmed on November 5 that the votes were collected on November 4, but from a ballot box that was closed at 8 p.m. on November 3 and then processed and counted. The AP and the media rated Biden as the winners in California shortly after the polls closed based on analysis of early voting statistics.
California has a tradition of voting for Democratic candidates, but the state continues to count all valid votes. The state accepts mail-in ballots up to 17 days after Election Day, as long as the mail is postmarked by November 3.
As of November 11, the total number of Biden votes received in California was 10.27 million and Trump was 5.36 million, according to the state secretary general.
“It would be nice to have a president who is not spreading conspiracy theories online that have been rejected,” a California Secretary of State spokesman tweeted about the Trump video.
An hour after Trump shared the video, Twitter posted a warning label with an exclamation point, along with a link showing how safe mail ballots are. However, this social network does not hide or delete videos, despite its policy of controlling false information.
Twitter tagged more than 40 tweets and they were re-shared on Trump’s page in the days after the election. When a tweet is tagged, the user cannot share it to limit the spread of fake news.
However, the video on Trump’s page was re-shared more than 70,000 times and received more than 183,000 likes before Twitter intervened. Twitter’s delay sparked outrage and prompted calls to suspend or permanently ban the president’s account. Twitter said Trump will no longer enjoy preferential treatment from the platform for people “of high information value” once he is fired.
Mr. Ngoc (According to the Guardian, PolitiFact)
