Posted on 05/27/2020 1:21:03 PM PDT by knighthawk
Recently Twitter added a “fact check” label to President Donald Trump’s tweets about the concerns surrounding mail-in voting fraud, but the social media site has failed to apply those same fact-checking measures to verified Chinese government accounts that spread coronavirus misinformation on the platform.
Breitbart News recently reported on Twitter’s attempts to “fact check” President Trump, this time focusing on the President’s tweets discussing concerns surrounding mail-in voting fraud. Twitter chose to add its own personal “fact-check” to the President’s tweet, Breitbart News journalist Allum Bokhari outlined why this situation is unique in an article writing:
Unlike Facebook, which gives itself plausible deniability for fact-checking bias by relying on “third party fact checkers” (almost all left-leaning) to pick and choose what to fact-check and what to ignore, Twitter made the decision to fact-check Trump’s tweet itself, linking to an official “moment” curated by Twitter employees and containing numerous articles from the mainstream media calling the president a liar.
In a comment to Breitbart News, Twitter said there was no way for the President even to appeal the dubious “fact-check.”
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Need to many foreigners with H1B visa’s of taking over silicon valley. I think that’s a big problem. They’re not run by American mostly. And even if they are the workers are cheap for in labor
Rules for gov.twitter.com would be that all posts from politicians would be unmediated.
Twitter is Twaddle. Just another leftist web site soon to be boycotted...I hope.
Tweet that, Mr. President. The Pajama Boy acting as Twitter’s fact checker will have an aneurism.
Social media monopolies should have been busted up his first year in office but alas, the swamp remains and so do the creatures who inhabit it.
President Trump should start his own social media platform.
An original thought- Follow the money.
Birds of a feather.
If they continue down this path of curating all content, they will have made themselves publishers, subject to all that entails.
I actually like the idea of them adding their spin rather than bans and deletions; though would be better if it were tagged as “Twitter Responds”, or something to that effect. It sure as H isn’t “fact checking”.
We need to accept that there is no longer an objective source of information, all media is biased. There are no “facts”, “fact checkers”, or “fake news”. There is only opinion, so let the opinions fly and allow people the respect to decide for themselves what is or is not truthful. Over time the objective truth WILL rise forth from the mess.
Someone needs to start a viable opponent to Twitter.
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