Twitter and Facebook labeled a message from Trump alleging election theft; Twitter restricted sharing of the tweet, but Facebook didn't reduce the post's spread
Good morning! This Thursday, why it's hard … Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times : Twitter flags Trump election tweets as misleading Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News : Vote Watch: Twitter takes action on multiple Trump tweets Jack Stubbs / Reuters : Twitter flags Trump election tweet as disputed and possibly misleading Trisha Jalan / MediaNama : Twitter, Facebook label Trump's tweets about election results, ballot ‘dumping’ Wall Street Journal : Facebook, Twitter Grapple With Trump's False Election Claims Tweets: Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump : We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed! Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump : How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction? Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump : Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong! @rmac18 : According to a Twitter spox, the tweet from Eric Trump and this one from the White House press secretary will receive labels for sharing misinformation about election results. https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : McEnany also shared the same statement on Facebook. Per @JeffHorwitz's reporting, political officials can share misinformation about declaring victory in individual states, but are prohibited from doing so about overall race. I have asked Facebook anyways. https://twitter.com/... Election Integrity Partnership / @2020partnership : 3/5 Around 40 min later, Twitter took action by hiding the tweet behind an informational label and preventing it from being retweeted. The graph below shows the rate of retweets and quote tweets, which were dramatically reduced after Twitter took action https://faculty.washington.edu/ ... https://twitter.com/... Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : Twitter's warning atop this @FDRLST article baselessly claiming that Dems “are trying to steal the election” marks the first time that a US media outlet's main account has been tagged with an election results label. https://twitter.com/... Nick Bilton / @nickbilton : Twitter deserves major credit for hiding this false and dangerous tweet, and doing it so quickly. Facebook, on the other hand, on e again refuses to do its civic duty. https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : A Twitter spokesman said, “Recordings or clips of the press conference on their own are not a violation of our policies.” Pointed out that many press outlets carried the speech and shared clips to Twitter. The company would have had to label all of them. https://twitter.com/... Kim-Mai Cutler / @kimmaicutler : FFS, do your job @nick_clegg https://twitter.com/... Pranesh Prakash / @pranesh : Perhaps it might not be best to trust #Twitter to make all the right calls about reliable elections news. They've flagged an NYT reporter's coverage of a bureaucratic hiccup (printer ink!) during the US elections as “disputed” and says it “may be misleading”. https://twitter.com/... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : A graph showing how Twitter's action to reduce the spread (by removing the ability to RT) of @realDonaldTrump's misleading tweet tonight about election integrity (reacting to Supreme Court decisions about PA) affected the tweet's spread: https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Turley / @jonathanturley : ...The actions by Twitter and Facebook on Election Day were reprehensible and wrong. What is so disturbing is that so many Democrats have come enablers of such corporate speech controls by the giant tech companies. @nytimes : Twitter clamped down on President Trump's false statement about election results in about five minutes early Wednesday morning, but that didn't stop more than 750 other Twitter accounts from trying to amplify his claims with the exact same message. https://www.nytimes.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Do Facebook labels make it that “clear”? Would it be easy to miss these labels? Compared to some of the Twitter labels that completely cover some tweets? https://twitter.com/... Andy Stone / @andymstone : @donie @kayleighmcenany @EricTrump same here: https://www.facebook.com/... David Gilbert / @daithaigilbert : Twitter is scrambling to keep up with the flood of disinformation from the Trump team https://twitter.com/... Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : Twitter throttling Trump's STEAL tweet on election night will go down as a big decision in the company's history. So will whatever Facebook decides to do — or not do — about that claim, and others like it. Evan Rosenfeld / @evansss : Republican Twitter right now https://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Wow. Joel Kaplan must have gone to bed early tonight. So brave of Facebook to actually refer to the President by name. https://twitter.com/... Taylor Hatmaker / @tayhatmaker : this is a scenario social media cos anticipated and they're doing what we expected them to do. still, strange to see Facebook call out Trump's actions specifically in light of... four years of mostly never doing that https://twitter.com/... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : Just in: Twitter hits another high-profile Dem, CAP president @neeratanden, with a warning label for prematurely claiming Biden “is already at 270” (He's not.) https://twitter.com/... Election Integrity Partnership / @2020partnership : 2/5 As we've written about previously, these statements are now predictable and connect to broader efforts to spread false narratives about mail-in voting and the legitimacy of election results: https://www.eipartnership.net/ ... Wild Geerters / @classiclib3ral : This twitter function really improving the quality of Tim's tweets https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : The platforms weren't the story on election night in 2016. Their mishaps were uncovered later. https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Reminder that adding labels and context to tweets is not “censorship” and the President of the United States has an infinite number of ways to communicate that aren't one tiny social media platform @rmac18 : 1) a quote tweet with disputed info 2) a tweet that's judged to be ok for now 3) a tweet with disputed info incredible range https://twitter.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : don't really understand how it takes twitter 12 minutes and counting to slap a label on Trump's tweet implying the election was stolen Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef : Trump's latest tweet calling results into question passed *more than 100,000 RTs in half an hour* before being locked by Twitter. https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : A Twitter spokesperson said the company is reviewing Trump's latest tweet about “surprise ballot dumps”. It's been up for 15 mins. https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : 62 million people voted for Trump in 2016 and its trending to look like ten million more people voted for him this year. This is more votes than Obama got in 2008 which is the current record. The fact our Twitter bubble can't escape is many Americans want four more years of this https://twitter.com/...
Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!
3/5 Around 40 min later, Twitter took action by hiding the tweet behind an informational label and preventing it from being retweeted. The graph below shows the rate of retweets and quote tweets, which were dramatically reduced after Twitter took action https://faculty.washington…
According to a Twitter spox, the tweet from Eric Trump and this one from the White House press secretary will receive labels for sharing misinformation about election results. https://twitter.com/...
McEnany also shared the same statement on Facebook. Per @JeffHorwitz's reporting, political officials can share misinformation about declaring victory in individual states, but are prohibited from doing so about overall race. I have asked Facebook anyways. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter's warning atop this @FDRLST article baselessly claiming that Dems “are trying to steal the election” marks the first time that a US media outlet's main account has been tagged with an election results label. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter deserves major credit for hiding this false and dangerous tweet, and doing it so quickly. Facebook, on the other hand, on e again refuses to do its civic duty. https://twitter.com/...
A Twitter spokesman said, “Recordings or clips of the press conference on their own are not a violation of our policies.” Pointed out that many press outlets carried the speech and shared clips to Twitter. The company would have had to label all of them. https://twitter.com/...
Perhaps it might not be best to trust #Twitter to make all the right calls about reliable elections news. They've flagged an NYT reporter's coverage of a bureaucratic hiccup (printer ink!) during the US elections as “disputed” and says it “may be misleading”. https://twitter.com/…
Twitter throttling Trump's STEAL tweet on election night will go down as a big decision in the company's history. So will whatever Facebook decides to do — or not do — about that claim, and others like it.
A graph showing how Twitter's action to reduce the spread (by removing the ability to RT) of @realDonaldTrump's misleading tweet tonight about election integrity (reacting to Supreme Court decisions about PA) affected the tweet's spread: https://twitter.com/...
...The actions by Twitter and Facebook on Election Day were reprehensible and wrong. What is so disturbing is that so many Democrats have come enablers of such corporate speech controls by the giant tech companies.
Twitter clamped down on President Trump's false statement about election results in about five minutes early Wednesday morning, but that didn't stop more than 750 other Twitter accounts from trying to amplify his claims with the exact same message. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Do Facebook labels make it that “clear”? Would it be easy to miss these labels? Compared to some of the Twitter labels that completely cover some tweets? https://twitter.com/...
this is a scenario social media cos anticipated and they're doing what we expected them to do. still, strange to see Facebook call out Trump's actions specifically in light of... four years of mostly never doing that https://twitter.com/...
Just in: Twitter hits another high-profile Dem, CAP president @neeratanden, with a warning label for prematurely claiming Biden “is already at 270” (He's not.) https://twitter.com/...
2/5 As we've written about previously, these statements are now predictable and connect to broader efforts to spread false narratives about mail-in voting and the legitimacy of election results: https://www.eipartnership.net/ ...
Reminder that adding labels and context to tweets is not “censorship” and the President of the United States has an infinite number of ways to communicate that aren't one tiny social media platform
Trump's latest tweet calling results into question passed *more than 100,000 RTs in half an hour* before being locked by Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
A Twitter spokesperson said the company is reviewing Trump's latest tweet about “surprise ballot dumps”. It's been up for 15 mins. https://twitter.com/...
62 million people voted for Trump in 2016 and its trending to look like ten million more people voted for him this year. This is more votes than Obama got in 2008 which is the current record. The fact our Twitter bubble can't escape is many Americans want four more years of this …
New data shows that YouTube has cut its recommendations of fringe channels, helping reduce its spread of disinformation. The changes have also had a knock-on effect: Fox News is now YouTube's most recommended channel alongside election-related videos. https://www.nytimes.com/...
To be utterly transparent, a big debate in our editors' meeting today was whether to prewrite this post, because this situation was so obviously coming. (We did not, because we didn't want to make any assumptions about the facts.) https://www.theverge.com/...
People need to stop blaming Facebook for everything. The reason Facebook has so much power is because Americans are such a bunch of zombies who will spend hours on Facebook but won't spend 30 minutes reading a newspaper. https://twitter.com/...
Yet further proof that social media, far from being biased against conservatives, actually favor them The real question: is that because tech companies, under relentless GOP attacks, have actively skewed content to favor the GOP? That'd be actual censorship by intimidation https:…