Twitter on Wednesday flagged two of President Donald Trump’s tweets as misleading, as a battle over the knife-edge US election spilled into social media. The latest move from the social media giant comes after he claimed that ballot irregularities were taking place during vote-counting process.

Donald Trump on Wednesday accused ‘pollsters’ of wrongly counting ballots, claiming that there had been “surprise ballot dumps” in states where he was leading Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the morning. 

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Twitter’s action made the comments less visible, and users seeking to read the post were required to click through a warning that “some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading.”

A Twitter spokesperson said the action was taken “in line with our Civic Integrity Policy,” and would “significantly restrict engagements” with the tweet.

A similar action was taken against an earlier tweet by the president suggesting the Democratic nominee was seeking to “steal” the election.

The Twitter spokesperson said it took action on a number of other comments including premature victory claims by a North Carolina Republican Senate candidate and one comment contending prematurely that Biden had won Wisconsin.

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“As votes are still being counted across the country, our teams continue to take enforcement action on Tweets that prematurely declare victory or contain misleading information about the election broadly,” Twitter said.

The social media giant last month updated its policy aiming to prevent efforts to manipulate or interfere in elections. That calls for actions against false claims for victory or any incitement to violence.