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Twitter flagged Trump’s morning tweets as probably deceptive.

WASHINGTON — Twitter flagged all of President Trump’s early-morning tweets on Saturday as disputed and probably deceptive after he made baseless cl


WASHINGTON — Twitter flagged all of President Trump’s early-morning tweets on Saturday as disputed and probably deceptive after he made baseless claims about election irregularities.

In a collection of posts, Mr. Trump targeted his ire on Pennsylvania, the place a loss within the state would seal his destiny as a one-term president. Mr. Trump was trailing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. by about 28,000 votes when he tweeted.

Inside an hour, Twitter had put a warning label on all 4 of the tweets, saying that the content material of his claims “could be deceptive about an election or different civic course of.”

Twitter has grown more and more aggressive about flagging Mr. Trump’s false statements even because the president, within the days since Election Day, has unfold false tales about “unlawful ballots” and has demanded that native officers in a number of states cease counting ballots prematurely.



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