The Twitter platform on Saturday morning briefly prevented users from liking and responding to a series of tweets posted by Donald Trump challenging the outcome of the presidential election.
Trump's tweets came in response to the Supreme Court's rejection of Texas' attempt to overturn Friday's presidential election results.
Trump called the decision a major and shameful miscarriage of justice, claiming that the people of the United States had been deceived and the United States had been disgraced.
The platform classified several of Trump's tweets as containing disputed information and limited user interaction.
Some users on the platform noted earlier Saturday that the ability to like, retweet or respond to Trump's tweets is not working.
Twitter quickly re-reacted to Trump's tweets, and a platform spokesman said: We have inadvertently taken action to limit posts in classified tweets.
"This procedure has been rolled back, and you can now interact with tweets, but they continue to be categorized in order to provide more context for anyone who may see the tweet, in line with our civil integrity policy."
Twitter recently added numerous warnings and labels to tweets from Trump's account, including several unfounded allegations of voter fraud in the U.S. election.
Trump also issued such tweets on Saturday, including one in which he falsely claimed to have won the election by an overwhelming majority in legal votes, with twitter marked with a sign that said: This claim of election fraud is in dispute.
The platform first concealed the president's tweet — without deleting it for the public good — in May when Trump violated the company's policy prohibiting the glorification of violence.
The social media company said last month that Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20.
Twitter allows some tweets to remain in violation of the rules of world leaders because of the public interest, while such tweets are hidden from political candidates, elected or government officials with a warning, and Twitter takes measures to restrict their access.
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