![]() ![]() When Trump family members, campaign aides and surrogates began tweeting Wednesday that the president had won Pennsylvania - a state where much of the vote had yet to be counted - Twitter began applying the same warnings to their posts. Twitter posted the same notice on more of his tweets, including one in which he stated that his lead in states that are “Democrat run & controlled” had “started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. The challenges kept coming Wednesday as Trump continued tweeting. ![]() “This action is in line with our Civic Integrity Policy, and as is standard with this warning, we will significantly restrict engagements on this Tweet.” “We placed a warning on this Tweet for making a potentially misleading claim about an election,” a Twitter spokesman said in an email. Twitter users still quote-tweeted the president en masse, both to critique and to support the company’s response. Once they got past that prompt, the tweet could be only quote-tweeted, with a message attached - and even in that situation, the text of the tweet was replaced with the warning about misinformation. When users clicked on the retweet button, they were prompted to think twice before retweeting the message, with language again linking to the misinformation policies. Trump’s election night tweet racked up thousands of retweets in the minutes between its posting and its labeling, but once it was tagged as potential misinformation, it became more difficult to share the post. Beneath the president’s message, Twitter also added a notice linking to the same policies. ![]()
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