Just hours before the start of Election Day 2020, Twitter and Facebook each put a fact check on posts by Donald Trump in which he advanced baseless claims that mail-in voting in Pennsylvania is plagued by “cheating” and contributes to “violence.”
Trump’s statements concerned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that will allow Pennsylvania to count mailed absentee ballots that arrive up to Nov. 6, so long as it can’t be proved they were mailed after Nov. 3.
In a tweet and Facebook post, Trump made the unfounded claim that the court’s decision will “allow rampant and unchecked cheating” and “undermine” American law.