President Trump challenged the boundaries of Twitter's election-specific policies Monday night in an election-eve preview of what to expect in the coming days.
In a tweet, Trump railed against the decision of the Supreme Court to allow Pennsylvania officials to count Election Day postmarked ballots. In recent weeks, the Republican Party has waged a blatant legal onslaught against voting rights across key states, a cynical effort aimed at boosting the reelection prospects of the sitting president.
Twitter pushed back on the President's false argument about mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, hiding it behind a notice of disinformation that calls the tweet "disputed." Twitter also disabled non-quote retweets, likes, and responses to the secret tweet, which remains visible but restricted.
Trump tweeted, "The Supreme Court ruling on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one." It will allow for widespread and unregulated cheating and will destroy all of our legal systems. In the streets, it will also cause violence. There must be something done! The reposted message was not deleted by Facebook, but a mark highlighting the reliability of voting systems was added.
63,000 likes and 13,000 comments were obtained from Trump's Facebook post three hours after it was released.
Twitter is literally a worldwide platform for Free Speech but because the person in control of this platform doesn't like your speech, he blocks or censors that even if there's no slurs or profanity used.. the CEO should be paying the price for this... There should be serious penalties for denying people free speech because they don't believe in the same things as they do politically. Deparment of Homeland Security should raid Twitter.The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one. It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020
