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Twitter’s fact-check reignites calls for big tech regulation

3 June 2020

11:38 PM

3 June 2020

11:38 PM

Twitter began ‘fact-checking’ President Trump’s tweets for the first time last week, raising questions about the role that social media giants play as gatekeepers of digital information.

After the President asserted that mail-in ballots would be ‘substantially fraudulent’, a blue notification was placed at the bottom of the original tweet: ‘Get the facts about mail-in ballots’.

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