Twitter briefly limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election

Source: The Hill | December 12, 2020 | Celine Castronuovo

Twitter on Saturday prevented users from liking and replying to a series of tweets from President Trump in which he repeated false claims that he won the election and that the race was “stolen” from him, though the company later reversed the move.

In three separate tweets Saturday morning, Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out a lawsuit from Texas aiming to nullify President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania. 

Trump cited the dissenting opinion from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito expressing their view that the court is obligated to hear interstate disputes.

Aside from this jurisdictional disagreement, however, those two more conservative justices indicated they joined the court’s seven other members in siding against Texas.

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Twitter placed a warning label on each of these tweets Saturday, writing, “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”

However, Twitter users for at least an hour were not able to like or reply to any of the tweets.

Instead, when users attempted to react to or share the tweet, a message popped up from the platform reading, “we try to prevent a Tweet like this that otherwise breaks the Twitter Rules from reaching more people, so we have disabled most of the ways to engage with it.”

The message noted that users could still retweet the message with a comment, although the other sharing functions had been removed. The platform included a link to an explanation of its rules and regulations.

A Twitter spokesperson later Saturday morning said in an emailed statement to The Hill that the actions on the tweets had been reversed.

“We inadvertently took action to limit engagements on the labeled Tweet,” the spokesperson said. “You can now engage with the Tweet, but in line with our Civic Integrity Policy policy it will continue to be labeled in order to give more context for anyone who might see the Tweet.”

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