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I believe the specific issue at play was not the claims about voter fraud, but the misleading representations about who will recieve a mail in ballot in Califor
by shkkmo 6y ago
I believe the specific issue at play was not the claims about voter fraud, but the misleading representations about who will recieve a mail in ballot in California (specifically an implied assertion that you don't need to register to vote to recieve a mail in ballot in California)
The later goes against the specific rules in Twitter's "civic integrity policy" that try to prevent to use of Twitter to spread misinformation that can result in voter suppression.
You can say falsely say election was rigged but you cannot falsely say that a poling location was closed (at least on Twitter).
- tuna-piano 6y agoFair for that "who will receive a ballot" point. If that's all Twitter was fact checking my point would not stand. But disagree on the other point of their fact check - which goes with my argument. Here is the quote from the top of their fact check of his tweet: "Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud On Tuesday, President Trump made a series of claims about potential voter fraud after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an effort to expand mail-in voting in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. These claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post and others. Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud." This quote could literally be written to disprove any of a number of liberal arguments - but yet curiously isn't.