What Twitter said worked – and didn’t – in its US election measures

Twitter Inc on Thursday released data for the first time on the effectiveness of measures introduced to combat U.S. election misinformation, including labels it applied to President Donald Trump and others.

Tweets from Trump that shared false claims about voter fraud and challenged the election outcome to his 88 million followers have been shared tens of thousands of times on the platform.

WARNINGS AND LABELS

In a blog post, Twitter said it labeled about 300,000 tweets across the site with disputed or potentially misleading content under its ‘civic integrity’ rules between Oct. 27 and Nov. 11. It said these represented 0.2% of all US election-related tweets sent during that period.

Twitter said 456 of these tweets were also hidden by a warning message and had their engagement limited, meaning users could not retweet, reply to or like the tweets.