Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

A post by American President Donald Trump received a fact-checking label from Twitter for the first time.

President Trump tweeted: “THERE IS NO WAY (ZERO!) That Mail-In Ballot will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.”

Twitter has put a warning label under the post and a subsequent tweet according to its new policy on misleading information.

Mr. Trump recently made several baseless claims about the validity of mail-order voting.

The Twitter notification shows a blue exclamation mark under the tweets, suggesting that readers “know the facts related to voting by mail.”

The social media company had pledged to raise warning labels based on false or misleading information on its site, but it has been slow to take action against the President of the United States.

Twitter said the message “contains potentially misleading information about the voting process.”

The company updated its warning label policies earlier this month.

The move comes in the wake of Twitter’s decision not to remove President Trump’s comment on Lori Klausutis’ death in 2001. The president tweeted several messages promoting a conspiracy theory that Klausutis was murdered by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.

His widower Timothy Klausutis asked Twitter to remove the post.

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The company refused to delete those tweets but told Klausutis that he was “deeply sorry” for the pain caused by the president’s statements.