The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party acknowledged, on record, that he has discussed appointing loyal electors with the Trump campaign. ![]() "The push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people's will," an unnamed Trump-campaign legal adviser told The Atlantic. Tangent:īack in September, The Atlantic published a piece that claimed the Trump campaign was preemptively discussing potential strategies to circumvent the results of the 2020 election, should Biden win, by first alleging rampant fraud and then asking legislators in battleground states where the Republicans have a legislative majority to bypass the state's popular vote and instead to choose electors loyal to the sitting president. Earlier this week, Republican Senators accused Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of anti-conservative bias during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Last Sunday, Trump tweeted flatly, and in all caps, "I WON THE ELECTION!" Twitter responded by flagging the tweet and stating, "Official sources called this election differently." Twitter has attached similar misinformation labels to a large number of comparable posts by the president. ![]() Since Election Day in early November, Trump has continuously and falsely claimed he defeated Biden, making baseless allegations that Democrats coordinated the theft of hundreds of thousands of votes. President Trump has frequently railed against Twitter and other Big Tech corporations during his four years in office. Newsweek has asked the White House and Twitter for comment."As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration," said Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio. Musk's decision to put the deal on hold knocked 15 percent off Twitter's share price in pre-market trading on Friday. Twitter has been reporting that five percent estimate since 2019 and it has been mentioned in the company's last 11 quarterly reports. Musk announced on Twitter on Friday that the deal to buy the company was "temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users." Musk's account has more than 93.3 million followers and SparkToro's tool found that 70.2 percent of those accounts are fake. The software company's tool also found that Biden's account has more fake followers than most. As Biden's digital director Rob Flaherty revealed on.
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