President Trump, who is seeking re-election in the 2020 United States presidential election, has tweeted several times over the past few days and made criticisms and allegations about the integrity of the election, as voting ends on 3 November. Due to his controversial remarks, including the question “election fraud” and claim that he has won the Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina election. According to media reports on November 5 statistics, in Trump from November 3 to 5 issued 29 tweets, nearly 40 percent of all tweets were posted on Twitter, allegedly containing misleading content.
The New York Times, which publicly supported Biden’s election before the election, reported on Thursday that 38 percent of the 29 tweets Trump sent and retweeted since Nov. 3 were tagged, accusing him of making misleading claims about the election process. Internet users will have to wait for a second click to see the content of the tweets Trump sent out.
Most of the 11 tweets Trump sent and retweeted were tagged, with the majority of the tags stating that “some or all of the content shared in this tweet is controversial and potentially misleading about how to participate in the election or other civic processes.
In response, Samantha Zager, the Trump campaign’s deputy national press secretary, pointed out that Twitter and other tech giants had interfered in Trump’s campaign before Election Day, and that they continued to do so in the days after they silenced him on their platforms. She said, “The American people deserve to know what’s happening in this election, but the tech giants are only interested in stopping the flow of information to voters.” A Twitter spokesperson said the company plans to continue taking action against tweets that prematurely declare victory or contain misleading information.
In response to the previously highly controversial New York Post report on Biden’s second son Hunter Biden’s “emailgate” allegations, whether tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook have abused their power to censor the spread of public opinion has sparked many Republicans’ discontent, and Trump’s reference to the aforementioned report on 6 June Scenario writes, “Twitter is out of control, thanks to a government giveaway of Section 230!”
The main elements of “Section 230” of the U.S. Communications Decency Act of 1996, passed under former President Bill Clinton’s administration, are twofold: first, that internet companies are not liable for content posted by third parties or users on their platforms, and second, that social media is not penalized even if they remove content that they find offensive or inappropriate.
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