Twitter And Facebook Flag Trump’s Mail-In Voting Post for Platform Violations

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President Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on July 30. On Saturday, Twitter and Facebook both flagged posts from the president that encouraged Americans to vote by mail and then go to the polls on Election Day to check that their vote was counted.





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