Twitter says flagged 300,000 'misleading' election tweets

Nearly half of Trump's tweets were flagged by the platform in the days following the election. — AFP

Twitter labelled 300,000 tweets related to the US presidential election as "potentially misleading" in the two weeks surrounding the vote, making up 0.2% of election-related posts, the company said on Nov 12.

The social network said the labels were issued between Oct 27 and Nov 11, one week before and after the US presidential election on Nov 3 – which Democrat Joe Biden won over incumbent Donald Trump.