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Twitter adds label to Trump's misleading tweets about mail-in ballots:
Twitter said Tuesday that it added a label to President Donald Trump's tweets for containing "potentially misleading information about voting processes," a rare move that shows the social media company is taking a tougher stance against misinformation.
It's the first time that Twitter has displayed a label on Trump's tweets.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted that "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-in-Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent," a claim that has been debunked by fact-checkers and news organizations. He continues his remarks in another tweet, stating that it will be a "Rigged election."
A label appears under both tweets that states "Get the facts about mail-in ballots." Clicking on the warning notice directs users to a page that states that fact-checkers say there isn't any evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud. Trump also falsely states in the tweets that California will send mail-in ballots to "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there" when only registered voters will receive ballots. States such as Oregon, Utah and Washington have long conducted elections by mail only, while states such as Nebraska allow any voter to request a ballot and vote by mail without having to provide a reason.
A Twitter spokeswoman said in a statement that the decision is in line with how the company approaches misinformation on its site, which includes adding warning notices and labels depending on the likelihood and severity of harm a tweet could cause.
Twitter's actions against Trump's tweets will also likely increase tensions between the company and conservative users, who allege that the social network suppresses their speech. Twitter has repeatedly denied those allegations. Earlier this month, Trump tweeted that the "Radical Left" is in control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google and said his administration is working on a solution.
In two tweets, Trump accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 US presidential election.
"Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!," he tweeted.
Also at BBC News, Ars Technica, MIT Technology Review
(Score: 5, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday May 27 2020, @11:06PM
Ok, here's a whole list of voter fraud cases provided by your friend and mine, The Heritage Foundation. I only researched for the most part larger or interesting sounding cases as there is no partisan filter and frequently no mention of party affiliation. There are far too many to research all of them, unless your a political addict or psychotic. So chance played a roll in what I found.
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=All&fraud_type=All [heritage.org]
Look at that! There's one or two every year in many states of individuals committing voter fraud! Taken all together, they might sway a dog catchers election in a small town!!!!
(changes filters to something with the potential of actual damage--criminal conviction plus altering the vote count)
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=24487&fraud_type=24511 [heritage.org]
And look at those numbers! FOUR! Democracy is doomed! Two were GOP defrauding the election, one was someone stealing an unsealed ballot box, but didn't get to the stage of changing ballots so political affiliation unknown and one was for a non-partisan private homeowners' association election.
(changes filters to something with the potential of actual damage--criminal conviction plus fraudulent use of absentee ballots)
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=24487&fraud_type=24489 [heritage.org]
Hmmm, very interesting results...You have to look up each case individually as they don't provide a partisan filter, but I looked up around twenty of the ones involving more that twenty or thirty ballots (that would only matter in the smallest of elections generally), and although most of the largest were GOP defrauding elections in places like S.C. or Alabama, many were non-partisan small town elections committed by businessmen looking for political favor and not party ideologies. Gee, businessmen are crooks? Who knew? A smattering of independent and DNC involved ones as well, but the minority OF THE ONES I RESEARCHED....
(changes filters to something with the potential of actual damage-OK, not actual damage, but one certain factions love to tout as the worst of the worst-criminal conviction plus impersonation fraud at the polls)
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=24487&fraud_type=24493 [heritage.org]
Spouses telling other spouse how to vote at poll, people voting in place of relatives, one or two of people voting for three or more relatives.....small potatoes and none large enough to matter as far as I could tell.
Now I did NOT look up each and every case in these lists, (I bar-b-q'ing Buffalo burgers later, it's beautiful outside and I don't want to waste all of it looking up stupid shit!) just some of the largest ones which since few stated any political bias in the descriptions means it's POSSIBLE I just stumbled upon more GOP and non-partisan "get my buddy elected so I get favor" fraud than DNC fraud.
There are also a lot of filters I didn't use, buying votes, illegal assistance, illegal registration and a few others. For example overturned elections were mostly Judicial Findings where handfuls of votes that were cast outside of districts, late absentee votes that were counted when they shouldn't of been, recounts and exactly four criminal cases where I did find two DNC, one GOP (this one involves a difficult to find information on the parties involved, and may actually be more of a personal gain than partisan) and one personal interest case involving taxation.
All of these cases are small, none seem larger than a regional or local problem and don't involve a national election, and even if they did their size would be insignificant to change the outcome. So screaming voter fraud at the top of their lungs seems at every damned election (until they win, then it evaporates...hmmmm) more of a preemptive excuse for losing an election than anything grounded in facts.
But then again, the one that yells the loudest about others crimes, is frequently only try to distract attention from their own.
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