300,000 tweets flagged over election disinformation, says Twitter boss Dorsey

300,000 tweets flagged over election disinformation, says Twitter boss Dorsey
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Twitter flagged 300,000 tweets as part of efforts to combat disinformation in the period around the 2020 US election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the social media site’s chief executive has said.

Jack Dorsey and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are giving evidence at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing called to question their companies’ actions around the closely contested election.

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