Twitter's Search Links Trump to Word "Loser"

Twitter's users searched on Saturday for the word “loser," the first result shown was the official account of the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump.

Searches for "winner" in the same "People" tab on Twitter, which suggests accounts to follow rather than turning up results from the text of users' tweets, pointed to the accounts of Biden and his running mate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, according to Dailynews.

On other hand, the unorthodox result started appearing on Twitter shortly after news organizations announced the Democratic party victory early on Saturday and happened throughout the day.

Moreover, Twitter reported the results were automatically generated based on how people on the app were using the terms in their tweets at the time.

"If an account is mentioned often alongside certain terms, they can become algorithmically surfaced together as an association. These associations are temporal and ever changing based on how people tweet," the Twitter noted in a statement.

Earlier, Twitter announced its policies before the U.S. elections to include specific rules that detailed how it would handle tweets making claims about election results before they were official.

The tweets are eligible to be labeled if the account has a U.S. 2020 candidate label, including presidential candidates and campaigns, meaning the Trump and Biden campaigns will not be immune to the new policies, the firm reported.

On other hand, the minimum is either 25,000 Likes or 25,000 Quote Tweets plus Retweets, the company reported. This aims to clamp down on allowing misinformation to go viral.

Twitter noted it would consider state election officials and national news outlets such as ABC News, Associated Press, CNN and Fox News that have independent election decision desks as official sources for results.

Earlier, Facebook announced that it will ban all political election, and social issue ads after the US presidential election that will held Today, in order to curb misinformation. This came with tensions rising between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Sen. Joe Biden.