{"id":14773,"date":"2020-05-27T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T07:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=14773"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T07:08:26","slug":"twitter-starts-labelling-trump-tweets-with-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/14773","title":{"rendered":"Twitter starts labelling Trump tweets with fact check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media platform Twitter labeled two tweets from US President Donald Trump &#8220;potentially misleading&#8221; Tuesday in a controversial first of its kind fact-checking move.<\/p>\n<p>The label was imposed on tweets Trump posted in the morning claiming \u201cThere is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-in Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent&#8221; and would lead to &#8220;a rigged election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s tweets focused primarily on California\u2019s efforts to expand mail-in voting due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>When a Twitter user sees the tweets, a link from Twitter says &#8220;Get the facts about mail-in ballots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The link leads to a collection of tweets and news articles selected by Twitter allegedly debunking the president\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n<p>Trump for his part slammed Twitter, accusing the company of interfering in the 2020 US elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen,&#8221; he vowed in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1265427538140188676\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1265427538140188676<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter is just terrible, what they do. They don\u2019t let you get the word out,&#8221; Trump told to TV Network last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1265427538140188676\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1265427538140188676<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll tell you what &#8212; they should be sued,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These people are all Democrats. If I announced tomorrow that I\u2019m going to become a nice liberal Democrat, I would pick up five times more followers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0 Social media platform Twitter labeled two tweets from US President Donald Trump &#8220;potentially misleading&#8221; Tuesday in a controversial first of its kind fact-checking move. The label was imposed on tweets Trump posted in the morning claiming \u201cThere is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-in Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent&#8221; and would lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14774,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions\/14774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}