Many are tuned in to watch the presidential race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. With Trump most recently attacking vote counting, Twitter has flagged his posts that could cast doubt on the process.
Trump took to Twitter a day after the elections to assert his claims about vote counting, casting doubt on the process as millions of ballots have yet to be counted. Trump accused officials at the polls and claimed “surprise ballot dumps” were being counted. The social media platform has since flagged his tweet, with a message saying, “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.” The platform has also restricted the viewing of the said tweet.
The post in question read, “Last night, I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat-run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE and the ‘pollsters’ got it completely & historically wrong!”
Speaking from the East Room of the White House, Trump cast doubt on the process of canvassing the remaining ballots. However, his comments were met with backlash from commentators and even from his own supporters. It should be noted that this is not an unusual occurrence as many have opted to vote by mail this year due to the pandemic and it has resulted in the counting of votes taking even longer.
Twitter also flagged Trump’s tweet musing about the impact of Mail-in ballot dumps in the electoral process.
Meanwhile, there has been some speculation that Trump may build his own news and opinion network should he lose to Biden in the elections. Trump has previously floated the idea of starting his own network that could rival Fox News, a network that has generally been favorable towards him.
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch weighed in on the speculation and stated that Fox News will welcome the idea of a competing broadcast network. “We love competition,” said Murdoch. “We have always thrived with competition…The only difference today versus some years ago is our audience has grown and our reach has grown…”