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Election Interference: Twitter Lets Georgia Runoff Misinformation Go Viral, No Warning Label
Breitbart ^ | December 10, 2020 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 12/10/2020 11:05:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

While promising to crack down on election misinformation on its platform and labeling a large number of President Donald Trump’s posts, Twitter allowed misinformation about Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) to spread virally across its platform freely.

Social media giant Twitter has promised to make many efforts to prevent the spread of misinformation on its platform. In recent months the site has blocked users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit relating to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, announcing plans to send users warnings if they attempt to “like” tweets that Twitter determines constitute misinformation, and repeatedly censoring or labeling tweets from Trump relating to the recent election.

However, despite Twitter’s supposed dedication to cracking down on misinformation, the site allowed a number of tweets about Loeffler to spread virally across its platform, some with tens of thousands of likes are still active on the platform with no warnings or labels whatsoever.

One tweet has amassed almost 80,000 likes and has been retweeted over 25 thousand times. It claims that Loeffler is campaigning in the Georgia Senate runoff elections on “understanding what it feels like living paycheck to paycheck.” The tweet includes a picture of a large home with a pool, claiming that it is one of Loeffler’s five homes. It is not.

Kelly Loeffler is campaigning on understanding what it feels like living paycheck to paycheck.

This is one of her 5 homes. pic.twitter.com/eyNfrLk601

— YS (@NYinLA2121) December 4, 2020

The photo in the picture is actually the home of TV host and comedian Steve Harvey; before Harvey owned the house actor and producer Tyler Perry owned the home. One tweet with 642 likes pointed this out in reply to the initial tweet:

Is she renting from Steve Harvey? https://t.co/gHGevHrd4g

— Dan Stringer, SEC Pimp (@Danstringer74) December 5,...


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KEYWORDS: loeffler

1 posted on 12/10/2020 11:05:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The states that have taken on Facebook need to also go after twitter. Now!


2 posted on 12/10/2020 11:09:24 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is coup d’état behavior.


3 posted on 12/10/2020 11:33:05 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bump


4 posted on 12/10/2020 1:28:36 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis.)
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