On Sunday morning, Donald Trump unleashed yet another unfounded claim about voting. This time, he suggested without evidence, that “Mail Drop Boxes” actually “make it possible for a person to vote multiple times.” His tweet also says mail drop boxes are not “Covid sanitized.” As with his usual refrain on voting, he rounded out the tweet with: “A big fraud!”
Twitter has labeled the tweet but is letting it stay visible. The label reads: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about civic and election integrity. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.” A Twitter spokesperson told The Verge that people will be able to Retweet with Comment, but not like, Reply, or Retweet it, which is the norm for tweets that receive this label.
This is Trump’s tweet.
This is the tweet from Twitter support. Axios reports that the tweet stayed up for more than five hours before Twitter added the disclaimer label. Continue reading.