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Dorsey Says Twitter Flagged 300,000 Misleading Tweets During Election
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November 17, 2020
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0:50Now PlayingThe CEO of Twitter says the service flagged some 300,000 tweets as part of efforts to combat disinformation in the period around the 2020 election between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are testifying Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing called to question their companies' actions around the closely contested election.
"More than a year ago, the public asked us to offer additional context to help make potentially misleading information more apparent. We did exactly that, applying labels to 300,000 tweets," Dorsey said.
Zuckerberg told the committee, he believed Facebook's efforts to combat disinformation "was the largest election integrity effort by any private company in recent times."
The senators are deeply divided by party over the integrity and results of the election itself.
Prominent Republican senators including committee Chairman Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have refused to knock down Trump's unfounded claims of voting irregularities and fraud in Biden's victory.
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