section_path: Fact-checking
section_name: Fact-checking
paragraph_text: Fact-checking
  
  In March 2020, Twitter added a label to a manipulated video of then-candidate Joe Biden that Donald Trump retweeted. Two months later, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter introduced a policy that would label or warn users on tweets with COVID-19 misinformation. The company said at the time that other areas would have labels covered, and shortly afterwards, misleading information on elections were included.
  
  On March 26, then-US president Donald Trump made two false statements about mail-in ballots, claiming they were "substantially fraudulent". Within 24 hours of the tweet, Twitter's general counsel and the acting head of policy jointly decided to label Trump's tweets, with several hours of internal debate from company leaders, and then-CEO Jack Dorsey signed off on the decision shortly before the label was applied. The labels, which told readers to "Get the facts about mail-in ballots", was the first time they were applied to Trump's tweets. A spokesperson for Twitter said that the tweets contained "potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots". The label linked to articles by CNN, The Washington Post, and The Hill, as well as summaries of claims of fraud.
  
  Three days later, a tweet about the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul was hidden from view.