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2020 Election - Page 60

Chinese State Media: We’re Not Calling Biden ‘President-Elect’ Yet

China’s state-run Global Times stressed on Friday that congratulatory messages from Chinese officials to former Vice President Joe Biden are meant to show “utmost respect to U.S. laws, election rules, all parties, and voters,” but that top Chinese leaders will not send official congratulations until “official results are released” from the 2020 U.S. election.

BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 04: Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shake hands with U.S Vice P

Twitter Boasts of Slowing the Spread of All Information on Its Platform

Social media website Twitter recently congratulated itself for curbing the spread of misinformation on its platform — by slowing the spread of all information on its platform. Based on Twitter’s changes to its platform, total retweets, one of the primary way ideas spread quickly between users, are down 20 percent.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 09: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a press event at CES

Tourist Voter Registration Illegal in Georgia, but Prosecution Is Rare

Temporary “tourist voter registration” is illegal under Georgia law, but only one person has been convicted of false registration since 2011 and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has said he will not call a special session of the state legislature to address the apparent loophole before two critical U.S. Senate runoff elections on January 5.

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Twitter Has Labeled 34% of Trump’s Tweets Since Election Day

A recent report from the New York Times analyzes Twitter’s moderation of the platform during the 2020 Presidential election, noting that 34 percent of tweets from President Donald Trump were marked as “disputed” by the platform since election day in an effort to lessen their viral spread across the platform.

Jack Dorsey testifies remotely