Facebook adds warning to Trump and Biden’s election posts
‘Votes are being counted. The winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election has not been projected,’ the warning reads
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Facebook has placed a warning labels on posts by Joe Biden that and Donald Trump as part of the social media site’s policy for the 2020 general election.
“Votes are being counted. The winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election has not been projected,” the warning reads.
Every one of the two candidates election posts have received that label, no matter what the content of the posts include.
For example, Mr Biden shared a post on Facebook attempting to ease his supporters about the current electoral predictions in several battleground states. His post read: “Keep the faith, folks. We’re gonna win this.”
That post received a label from the social media site.
Similarly, posts from Mr Trump on his Facebook page also received the label warning voters that the winner of the 2020 presidential election has yet to be declared.
Facebook likely opted to label every post from both presidential candidates to avoid backlash from both Mr Trump and Mr Biden.
Mr Trump has attacked both Facebook and Twitter for previously labelling his tweets and posts as misleading when spreading misinformation regarding the 2020 election.
But the president has gotten off without any warning labels throughout Tuesday night.
Twitter was quick to dispute a tweet from the president that suggested Democrats were “trying to STEAL the election”.
Mr Trump wrote: “We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!”
The president has again repeated an unfounded claim that counting absentee and mail-in ballots after Election Day would lead to voter fraud.
The social media platform added a disclaimer to the tweet saying that its content was “disputed” and “might be misleading about an election or other civic process". It also hid the tweet from immediately appearing in news feeds and on Mr Trump’s own profile - users need to click in to see what it says.
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