How Covid-19 pushed Twitter to fact-check Trump’s tweets

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nancy Scola on politico.com on May 27, 2020.It was the pandemic, Twitter says, that freed the company to attach fact-check warnings to a pair of US President Donald Trump’s tweets this week.Critics have complained for years that Twitter lets Trump run wild on the platform. But the company had generally taken a hands-off approach to the president, partly because of a company policy that considers it in…

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