Twitter Adds 'Warning Label' Again to Trump's Tweet Encouraging Mail and In-Person Voting

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[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] Twitter has once again added a warning label to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump encouraging North Carolina voters to participate in both mail-in and in-person voting.

On the 12th (local time), President Trump posted a tweet urging North Carolina voters to cast their mail-in ballots and then vote in person.

In the tweet, President Trump advised voters to sign their mail-in ballots as soon as possible and send them by mail. He also suggested that on Election Day or during early voting, they should visit polling stations to verify whether their mail-in votes were properly counted. If the votes were not confirmed, he encouraged them to participate in in-person voting.

It appears that President Trump, aware of criticism that a previous similar tweet seemed to encourage double voting, provided more detailed instructions this time, advising voters to check if their mail-in votes were counted and, if not, to vote in person.

However, Twitter stated its policy is to "excessively restrict the circulation of tweets that encourage illegal acts or actions that could lead to invalid votes in relation to voting, in order to protect Twitter users." Twitter did not delete President Trump's tweet with the warning label but explained that users are restricted from liking, replying to, or retweeting it.

On the 3rd, President Trump also posted a tweet on his Twitter account that appeared to encourage double voting among North Carolina voters, which was flagged with a warning stating it violated Twitter's election-related rules.

Last month, the Democratic Party posted a tweet claiming that using "street ballot boxes (drop boxes)" could lead to election fraud, which was flagged for violating "public and election integrity policies."

At the end of May, a tweet by President Trump claiming that mail-in voting would lead to election manipulation was marked for the first time with a "fact-check" warning. In the same month, a tweet by President Trump targeting anti-racism protests stating "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" was also labeled with a warning for "glorifying violence."

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