Twitter has started to post a 'fact-checker' on Trump's Tweets. First one is on Trump tweeting mail-in votes will lead to voter fraud. Twitter flagged it w/ a link to CNN.

I'm on Facebook a lot & see many conservative posts flagged as 'fake news', where they post 'fake news' on the post & you have to click it verfying you understand it's fake news & want to see the post anyways. Even on people's "private" posts they put on their personal feed. Example: if I posted on my page "mail-in voting leads to voter fraud', it wouldn't be uncommon for them to flag it.

For those wanting Trump to crack down on social media trying to censor, it may start soon.

(I'm surprised there wasn't a thread on this. This seems to be #1 headline today)

(05-27-2020 11:46 AM)Bronco14 Wrote:  Twitter flagged it w/ a link to CNN.

Twitter sending it’s sheep to CNN for “facts.”

Perfection.

could open them up to potential litigation.

Trump needs alternative reality social media outlets so he can continue to build his own actual alternative reality... and there appear to be plenty of willing inhabitants. Perhaps a company will come along and offer him that platform.

Twitter should manage their platform as they see fit.

(05-27-2020 11:54 AM)fsquid Wrote:  could open them up to potential litigation.

What litigation? Other than the obvious which Republicans have been talking about but doing nothing (Rubio the latest)-eliminating the protection against lawsuits Congress gave them.

This so-called "fact check" hinges on the definition of "rarely". Twitter doesn't go so far to say that it doesn't happen, just "rarely". What if the election comes down to a few hundred or thousand votes in a couple states? At that point, something that "rarely" occurs could swing the result of the election.

It's also pure speculation since we've never had a national mail-in election before. They're basically saying that their opinion of what is going to happen is correct, and Trump's isn't.

(05-27-2020 12:03 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-27-2020 11:54 AM)fsquid Wrote:  could open them up to potential litigation.

What litigation? Other than the obvious which Republicans have been talking about but doing nothing (Rubio the latest)-eliminating the protection against lawsuits Congress gave them.

The resulting lawsuits would bankrupt them overnight, so yes, do it yesterday.

They agreed to be a netural forum in order to secure that protection, and they are no longer holding up their part of the deal. And as we're told, they are a private company. So they can use their private resources to handle all those lawsuits without the public protection provided by Congress.

Turns out the person at Twitter in charge of labeling Trump's tweets as "misleading" is an outspoken, anti-Trumper. BIG surprise.

Just more BS from the left.

"Twitter's "Head of Site Integrity" Yoel Roth boasts on his LinkedIn that he is in charge of "developing and enforcing Twitter’s rules," like the one that led Twitter to slap a new "misleading" warning label on two of President Trump's tweets concerning mail-in balloting on Tuesday.

However, Roth's own barrage of anti-Trump, politically charged tweets seemingly calls into question whether he should be creating guidelines for the president and other Twitter users, especially when Twitter is under fire for its alleged left-wing bias.

Commentators, meanwhile, have argued that Trump's tweets on the risks of mail-in voting were not actually misleading, and the president accused Twitter of seeking to "interfere" in the upcoming election under the guise of a supposedly neutral "fact-checking" policy. Experts have said that a "genuine absentee ballot fraud scandal" is currently underway in a New Jersey city council election, for example.

Roth has previously referred to Trump and his team as "ACTUAL NAZIS," mocked Trump supporters by saying that "we fly over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason," and called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a "personality-free bag of farts." Last August, Twitter suspended McConnell's Twitter account, prompting the GOP to threaten to cut off advertising on the site until Twitter relented.

In September 2016, Roth tweeted, "I’ve never donated to a presidential campaign before, but I just gave $100 to Hillary for America. We can’t fu-k around anymore."

When Trump won the November 2016 election, Roth dejectedly chalked the development up to "[Bernie] Sanders protest voters, and racism," before sounding more optimistic notes.

"I’m almost ready to stop dwelling on how my friends are complicit in the election of Donald Trump," he said on Jan. 7, 2017. "Almost."

Those MF @ Twitter will get their ultimate fact check on election day 2020.

(05-27-2020 11:54 AM)fsquid Wrote:  could open them up to potential litigation.

Open who up?

I love Trump and the way he operates. He’s giving these idiots rope and they are so consumed with TDS they don’t even realize they are crafting the noose.

BTW, have they flagged “Trump Tower was wire tapped” yet?

(05-27-2020 11:56 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Trump needs alternative reality social media outlets so he can continue to build his own actual alternative reality... and there see. To be plenty of willing inhabitants.

Twitter should manage their platform as they see fit.

Horse hockey.

With the massive financial carve out they were granted from the American people via our elected officials, they can either be neutral platforms without (much) interference, or they can be copy editors and play by the same set of rules all the rest of us are required to.

(05-27-2020 12:03 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-27-2020 11:54 AM)fsquid Wrote:  could open them up to potential litigation.

What litigation? Other than the obvious which Republicans have been talking about but doing nothing (Rubio the latest)-eliminating the protection against lawsuits Congress gave them.

I believe that their stance is that they are a publisher. Once they veer into editorial (which I think this is), I believe they no longer have that protection against smeers, libel, etc.

However, I am not a lawyer nor have I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express lately.

(05-27-2020 12:33 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

well, he is incorrect on the mail in ballots.

(05-27-2020 01:13 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(05-27-2020 12:33 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

well, he is incorrect on the mail in ballots.

What exactly was he incorrect about?

(05-27-2020 01:18 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(05-27-2020 01:13 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(05-27-2020 12:33 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

well, he is incorrect on the mail in ballots.

What exactly was he incorrect about?

the massive corruption and fraud.

Didn't trump start a commission to find all the voter fraud? How'd that work out?