Twitter hits Trump with a double-edged sword
Jack Dorsey found his courage and hit Donald Trump "where it hurts". But he did so with the only thing available: a double-edged sword. The decision opened Pandora’s box.
Twitter surprised everyone this week by adding a “get the facts” button below two of Donald Trump’s tweets. In them, the US president accused postal voting of being “fraud” and claimed that ballot papers are being sent to all residents of the state of California, “no matter who they are or how they got there”.
According to leading American media outlets, the accusation is false. Ballot papers are only being sent to registered voters and there is no evidence that postal voting represents “substantial fraud”, as Trump alleges.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 28 May 2020.