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Twitter, Facebook flag Trump posts on U.S. election eve

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to board the Air Force One as he departs Miami for campaign travel to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, U.S. [File, November 2, 2020. Reuters, Carlos Barria]

Twitter TWTR.N and Facebook FB.O late on Monday both flagged posts by President Donald Trump that claimed a U.S. Supreme Court decision on mail-in voting in Pennsylvania would lead to "rampant" fraud and was "very dangerous."

Twitter hid the president’s tweet, sent the day before the U.S. presidential election, behind a label which said the content was “disputed” and “might be misleading.”

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