Twitter labeled 300,000 ‘potentially misleading’ election tweets

Twitter says it slapped warning labels on about 300,000 “potentially misleading” tweets about the presidential election in just two weeks.

Those posts accounted for 0.2 percent of all the election-related tweets sent from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11, a period covering the weeks leading up to and immediately following Election Day, the social network said in a blog post.

Twitter said it plans to keep applying the labels under its “Civic Integrity Policy” as part of its efforts to clamp down on misinformation following the election.

“These enforcement actions remain...