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After a night in which President Donald Trump falsely claimed achievement in the presidential election, Facebook has added a notification at the top of Facebook as able-bodied as Instagram feeds truism there was -- as yet -- no winner.

Earlier in the night, both Twitter as able-bodied as Facebook chose to label a bulletin -- identical on both platforms -- from Trump reading, "We are up BIG, however they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be hoop afterwhile the Polls are closed!" Twitter also placed stewardship restrictions on the tweet.

Twitter calls it "a potentially misleading claim chancy an election"

Early allotment were promising for the president, however a number of cardinal states are still counting votes, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, as able-bodied as Wisconsin. This work does not occupy affixed votes concreteness cast, however instead deals with the weaving surge of mail-in ballots that kumtux been palpably hoop however not yet counted.

Once President Trump began organizational resultless claims of victory, we started running notifications on Facebook as able-bodied as Instagram that votes are still concreteness counted as able-bodied as a champ is not projected. We're also automatically applying labels to both candidates' posts with this information. pic.twitter.com/tuGGLJkwcy

-- Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) November 4, 2020

Reached for comment, Twitter referred to a twitter from the company's @safety account anon afterwhile the restrictions were put in place. "We placed a warning on a Twitter from @realDonaldTrump for organizational a potentially misleading claim chancy an election," the twitter reads. "This feeling is in line with our Civic Integrity Policy."

Under Twitter's restrictions, users overcrowd clink through a warning box to see the twitter back it appears in feeds as able-bodied as homepages, as able-bodied as cannot like or reply to the tweet. Retweets are limited to the "quote tweet" function, zone users can only allotment the bulletin with their own commentary.

President Trump tell the same bulletin to Facebook, zone the platform affixed a label to the post passible that votes are still concreteness counted as able-bodied as directing users to Facebook's eulogizing information center. Facebook has not taken any measures to chasing the spread of the post within its network.

In a separate bulletin on both platforms, Trump seemed to hint at a future announcing after going therefore far as to presently disject victory. "I will be organizational a valuing tonight. A big WIN!" the post reads. Neither network has taken feeling suspend this second post.

Both Twitter as able-bodied as Facebook culled factual behavior suspend resultless achievement announcements in September, as able-bodied as the behavior assume to kumtux been unromantic as they were laid out at the time. Since September 17th, Twitter's misinformation policy has covered resultless claims of victory, organizational them good to be removed by moderators. Facebook's mastering is over-and-above limited: it said it would label posts involving the eulogizing as able-bodied as redirect admirers to cathedra information. Facebook also placed restrictions on paid propone of election-related posts, ensuring that candidates can't use the company's ad network to elaboration the claims.

Earlier in the day, Twitter had placed agnate restrictions on a affiliate of Trump's coll staff. Mike Roman, the campaign's dogcatcher of eulogizing day activities, had tell tweets alleging widespread voter furtiveness in Philadelphia, together with video that was latterly labelled as misleading by the city's district attorney.

"Misinformation concreteness spread online has driven over-and-above calls to the Eulogizing Work Force hotline than all-out incidents at polling sites," the district attorney's symposium told reporters.

Updated November 4th, 3:32AM ET: Affixed new information chancy vote-counting notifications on Facebook as able-bodied as Instagram at the top of their corresponding feeds.

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