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Twitter fact-checks China official after Post presses on Trump double standard
NY Post ^ | May 27 2020 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 05/27/2020 11:10:42 PM PDT by knighthawk

Confronted with an apparent double standard in its lack of fact-check warnings on tweets by a Chinese government spokesman versus the hardline it took with President Trump this week, Twitter on Wednesday added notations to the postings, which falsely accused the US government of causing the coronavirus pandemic.

The social media company’s decision follows its flagging of a pair of tweets from Trump that said mail-in ballots are vulnerable to fraud. That decision outraged Trump and called into question the political bias of the man in charge of fact checking for the social media giant.

But when The Post asked Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley whether the company would similarly annotate Zhao Lijian’s dubious March tweets, she said they would not add fact-check warnings “at this time.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; china; twitter

1 posted on 05/27/2020 11:10:42 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Twitter is soooo screwed. They’ve now put themselves in the position of being political censors. They will rip themselves apart.


2 posted on 05/27/2020 11:15:46 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: knighthawk

TOO LITTLE, TOO F’N LATE! FUTWITTER!


3 posted on 05/27/2020 11:19:15 PM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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Like NYT giving Pat Buchanan an Op Ed.


4 posted on 05/27/2020 11:19:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: knighthawk

HA ha!!!

Damned Commie globalist despots


5 posted on 05/27/2020 11:45:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: knighthawk

We now need to bombard them with complaints and documentation every single time someone on Twitter says anything at all about Trump and Russia, or any of the hundreds of other outright lies they’ve perpetrated. Take Cloward-Piven to their backsides, and don’t ever, ever let up.


6 posted on 05/28/2020 12:11:13 AM PDT by _longranger81 (Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
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To: knighthawk

Great tagline. Twitter - a ChiCom Company!


7 posted on 05/28/2020 12:16:07 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: DaxtonBrown

This is going to be pretty fire works, Twitter without a country, currency, military, or moral right out naked in front of everyone.... How embarrassing


8 posted on 05/28/2020 1:28:07 AM PDT by dila813
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To: knighthawk

I have been successful going after lefties on Twitter myself.


9 posted on 05/28/2020 1:55:27 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: knighthawk

Twitter has no business trying to be arbiters of facts and untruths, especially when it comes to political issues. That’s a big mistake.

They should just let people post what they want within their guidelines and let the tweeters fact check each other all they want.


10 posted on 05/28/2020 1:59:42 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Bullish

Re: Your tagline; How dare you impugn the intelligence and integrity of 8th graders.


11 posted on 05/28/2020 3:25:50 AM PDT by SantosLHalper (Eat some bacon.No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.")
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To: knighthawk

If it took an outcry to do it, then it wasn’t part of the original plan.

None of these companies have bought anything but trouble by all of this censorship and editorializing. Back in 2015 you could read and see almost anything on those sites, and no one died from it. All they’ve done is radicalize virtually everything.


12 posted on 05/28/2020 4:06:41 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: knighthawk


(yes, it's fake, but enjoy)
13 posted on 05/28/2020 7:19:21 AM PDT by reintarnation (not a noob, i just change my identity over the years...)
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