Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets

‘We knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,’ says Twitter’s vice president of global communications

Will Oremus
OneZero
Published in
7 min readMay 28, 2020

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At 8:17 a.m. on Tuesday, Donald Trump sent a characteristically aggrieved tweet claiming that mail-in ballots were “fraudulent,” and that ballots would be stolen and…

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