Facebook and Twitter provide reports to US President Trump’s posts

Facebook and Twitter both provided a post from US President Trump with a notification with a link to information about the election. The labels indicate that social media believe the post may provide misleading information.

Twitter gave the post was the first to report and Facebook followed suit. The link in the reports should direct users to reliable information about the course of the US presidential election, which took place on Tuesday. Some states are still counting votes, so the result is not yet known. Facebook notifies recent posts from the president, while Twitter hides the content of some posts by default.

The labeling fits in with a larger trend that social media has focused more in this US presidential election on countering misleading information and fake news on their platforms. Facebook, like other tech companies, has been preparing for the elections for some time with the aim of not being accused of interference this time. In the elections four years ago, many critics said that Facebook had played a role in the spread of fake news around the election and the company promised improvement.