Twitter on Sunday assigned a public interest notice to President Trump’s tweet for “making misleading health claims that could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting.”
Trump, in his tweet, had claimed that mail drop boxes are “voter security disaster” as they are not covid-sanitized.
“So now the democrats are using Mail Drop Boxes, which are a voter security disaster. Among other things, they make it possible for a person to vote multiple times. Also, who controls them, are they places in Republican or Democrat areas? They are not covid sanitized,” he had tweeted.
Hours after Trump tweeted, Twitter took action, stating, “We placed a public interest notice on this Tweet for violating our Civic Integrity Policy for making misleading health claims that could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting.”
After this action from Twitter, users won’t be able to like, reply or retweet the tweet.
Trump’s claim has been quashed by US scientists who said people are unlikely to catch the coronavirus from touching such a box. Moreover, to avoid any possibility, people can just sanitize their hands after touching the mail boxes.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the main way to infect covid-19 is by coming in direct contact with the person positive for the virus. They also said while it is possible to catch the infection from a surface, this is still not the primary cause of spread.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, Twitter and Facebook had blocked a video shared by the account linked to Trump for spreading misinformation regarding the coronavirus. The president then had said he was being unnecessarily targeted.
