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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.

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Facebook and Twitter Label 25 Trump Posts in 24 Hours

Over the past 24 hours, Facebook and Twitter have labeled posts by President Trump at least 25 times for various reasons. In one case, Facebook labeled the President’s post of his Veterans Day proclamation with the note “Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election.”

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Parler Tops App Store Charts for First Time

The social media platform Parler topped Apple’s app store for the first time over the weekend and was installed more than 310,000 times over the past week. Parler’s surge comes at the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have ramped up their censorship of discussion about the election.

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New York Times Praises Twitter and Facebook for Design Changes to Aid Censorship

The New York Times praises social media firms Facebook and Twitter for censoring posts from President Trump during the 2020 presidential election. According to the Times, the social media companies added “friction” to their interfaces leading up to the election, “as if Ferrari had realized that it could only stop its cars from crashing by replacing the engines with go-kart motors.”

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Twitter Censors 6 Trump Posts in 24 Hours

Twitter has actively censored six of President Donald Trump’s posts over the 24 hours between Thursday midmorning and Friday. Twitter’s censorship can lower the engagement of a Trump tweet by more than 80 percent, according to one recent analysis of their performance.

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Analysis: Twitter Censorship Dramatically Cut Trump’s Engagement on Election Night

A recent analysis of Twitter’s censorship of President Trump’s tweets reveals how the social media site dramatically cut the President’s engagement rate on election night. The analysis shows that Trump’s post before it was censored “was shared or replied to about 827 times a minute. After it was labeled, that dropped to 151 times a minute, according to the E.I.P. analysis.”

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New York Times Brags About Twitter’s Election Night Censorship of Trump

In a recent article, the New York Times outlines how Twitter’s efforts to censor President Trump successfully limited his reach on election night. The Times notes that an analysis shows Trump’s post “was shared or replied to about 827 times a minute. After it was labeled, that dropped to 151 times a minute.”

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Twitter’s Censors Pamela Geller

Twitter has censored another prominent conservative as part of its so-called election integrity efforts, this time author and secularist campaigner Pamela Geller.

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