NBC News reports:
Twitter is taking quick action on the president’s tweets calling into question the legitimacy of the election.
The social media platform labeled two of Trump’s tweets Wednesday morning with warnings that their claims regarding continuing vote counts were potentially misleading about the election, following a similar action taken in the early morning hours.
In one tweet, which Twitter also restricted from comments, likes and retweets, Trump baselessly claimed his advantage in states led by Democrats “started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.”
Another used a manipulated or misleading screenshot of a map from an elections results reporting outlet to suggest that 100 percent of a new count of votes in Michigan went to Biden. That did not happen.
“As votes are still being counted across the country, our teams continue to take enforcement action on Tweets that prematurely declare victory or contain misleading information about the election broadly,” Twitter spokesperson Nicholas Pacilio said in a statement. “Our teams continue to monitor Tweets that attempt to spread misleading information about voting, accounts engaged in spammy behavior, and Tweets that make premature or inaccurate claims about election results. Our teams remain vigilant and will continue working to protect the integrity of the election conversation on Twitter.”
Twitter’s actions follow several similar steps from election night in which it labeled and limited engagement on a tweet from Trump claiming Democrats were trying to “steal the election.” Facebook took similar steps to label identical posts on its platform.
Remember when Trump lost the popular vote by 2 million votes and won only by 77,000 votes across three states in 2016? And Hillary Clinton conceded the election the next day? And we all took to our beds for a week?
I don’t remember Hillary Clinton tweeting out that Trump had stolen the election or calling for the vote counting to be stopped. Jill Stein collected millions of dollars from gullible Democrats to do a recount in Wisconsin and it didn’t change anything. But that’s not going to happen this time.
Trump is tweeting out disinformation and ginning up his base to do… something. This isn’t going to end well for America, at least not in the short run.