Twitter, Facebook flag Trump's claims on Supreme Court's voting decision

Hours before the US Election Day, Twitter and Facebook flagged a post by President Donald Trump that claims a Supreme Court’s decision on voting in the key state of Pennsylvania, would lead to voter fraud and violence.

Last week, the top court allowed Pennsylvania and North Carolina — states pivotal to Trump’s re-election chances — to extend deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots in Tuesday’s election.

If Pennsylvania ballot counting takes several days, as is allowed, Trump said that “cheating can happen like you have never seen.”

“The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one,” Trump wrote in his post on both platforms.

“It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!” he added.

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Twitter, however, added a disclaimer to the message, saying that its content was “disputed” and “might be misleading.”

Facebook also posted a disclaimer describing that voting by mail and voting in person have a “history of trustworthiness” in the US, with voter fraud being extremely rare.

The message was a last-ditch effort by Trump to lay groundwork to challenge the results of the vote, if he loses.

In Pennsylvania, which offers 20 electoral votes, Trump’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden holds an average 2.5-point advantage, according to recent polls.

Both Trump and Biden campaigned in Pennsylvania on Monday.

The president has spent months claiming that early voting or mail-in ballots would be ripe for fraud, pushing for a scenario that every vote in the election should be “counted, tabulated, finished” by midnight after Election Day.

Election experts, however, said that no state ever reports final results on election night, and no state is legally expected to do so, either.

The president, however, refused to guarantee that he would honor the election result, as mail ballots tend to take longer to process than in-person votes.

He posted a similar message on Twitter last week, saying there were “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA.”

Twitter in response, placed a label above the message, describing it as “misleading.”

Some 100 million votes have already been cast, through early voting or mail-in ballots across the United States — this year more than ever due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The deadly viral infection, COVID-19, has so far claimed the lives of more than 231,000 people across the country.

The health crisis has also caused the starkest economic contraction since the Great Depression in the US.

Former vice president, Biden used the closing hours of his campaign to attack the president over his handling of the crisis on Monday, saying that “the first step to beating the virus is beating Donald Trump.”

Biden promised he would retain the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, whom Trump has talked of firing.

Trump suggests he might try to fire Fauci after election

Donald Trump has suggested he might fire his top health expert Anthony Fauci after the Nov. 3 election.

“Last night Trump said he was going to fire Dr. Fauci,” Biden said. “I got a better idea, elect me, and I’m going to hire Dr. Fauci! And fire Donald Trump!”

Biden has previously promised to work with Fauci if elected president. Fauci also praised Biden’s COVID-19 precautions.

Trump’s supporters, however, mocked Biden on social media, saying “Ok, so let’s just elect Fauci,” conservative author Ben Shapiro tweeted in reaction to Biden’s words. 

Trump has on many occasions disagreed with Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over COVID-19 restrictions, including social-distancing and mask-wearing guidelines.

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