Twitter Fact Checks President Trump – But Not Communist China

Twitter Fact Checks President Trump – But Not Communist China
Breitbart ^ | May 27 2020 | LUCAS NOLAN

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com …

TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; trump; twitter

To: knighthawk

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

2 posted on 05/27/2020 1:23:01 PM PDT by tinamina

To: knighthawk

One solution to the problem would be for twitter to create gov.twitter.com, and force *all* politicians to use that instead of the main twitter channel. That way, people who want to follow politicians would be able to. Those that don’t want to follow, don’t have to sign up.

Rules for gov.twitter.com would be that all posts from politicians would be unmediated.

3 posted on 05/27/2020 1:31:46 PM PDT by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)

To: knighthawk

THAT SAYS IT ALL.

4 posted on 05/27/2020 1:32:25 PM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)

To: knighthawk

Twitter is Twaddle. Just another leftist web site soon to be boycotted…I hope.

To: knighthawk

Tweet that, Mr. President. The Pajama Boy acting as Twitter’s fact checker will have an aneurism.

6 posted on 05/27/2020 1:57:48 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn’t for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all — Texas Eagle)

To: knighthawk

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.

To: knighthawk

President Trump should start his own social media platform.

8 posted on 05/27/2020 2:02:56 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)

To: knighthawk

An original thought- Follow the money.

9 posted on 05/27/2020 2:32:45 PM PDT by arthurus (us covfefe cv)

To: knighthawk

Birds of a feather.

10 posted on 05/27/2020 2:58:19 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)

To: arthurus

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.

To: knighthawk

Someone needs to start a viable opponent to Twitter.

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