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Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time

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Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time

Trump had made false statements about the threat of voter fraud posed by the expansion of mail-in voting in California.




After telling 18,000+ lies and pushing innumerable conspiracy theories since the 2017 inauguration, it's high time Trump was held accountable for his media disinformation. He's every bit as bad as the Russians.

Related: Twitter has started fact-checking Trump's tweets
 
Superfly said:
That’s why he’s yammering this morning about shutting social media down.

What a baby.
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:lamo This is the baby that represents us to the world.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct. Big action to follow!

7:22 AM - 27 May 2020
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Love one of the comments, something like we didn't want a king so we ended up with a drama queen. :mrgreen:
 
Donald Trump is literally the biggest punk I've ever seen.
 
americanwoman said:
:lamo This is the baby that represents us to the world.



Love one of the comments, something like we didn't want a king so we ended up with a drama queen. :mrgreen:
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It will take years for us to regain any type of standing within the global community. We may never see it in our lifetimes.
 
A President spending his time during a pandemic where a couple of thousand of people are dying per day and he is complaining about Twitter.

Has there ever been a more feckless President?
 
I will say that people are treated differently on Twitter but not in the way that he thinks.

He can call Joe Scarborough a murderer, or Hillary Clinton a skank, and get away with it. I can tell Geraldo that he is a washed-up has-been, and I get put in Twitter jail.
 
Although Trump should not have done it, it does prepare the field for a “Discussion about the cost of baseless accusations”.
The attempted coup on Trump. FBI entrapment, baseless charges leveled at Kavenaugh, etc. I’ll stop here.

Scarborough is getting a taste of the garbage his station puts out, and he is getting a taste in real human terms. Scarborough and is wife are probably munching on toast worrying with his wife that “If they re open and push this and make us a victim of state power, we will be as bankrupt as Gen. Flynn! This is only supposed to happen to them, not us!”
 
This should forever put to rest any notion that Twitter is a utility. Publishers are accountable for what they publish.

Let the lawsuits commence!
 

This is a brilliant move by Trump. He knows Twitter won't 'fact check' leftist propaganda. This will rally his supporters and get them to the polls in November.
 

It's about time!
 
Jezcoe said:
A President spending his time during a pandemic where a couple of thousand of people are dying per day and he is complaining about Twitter.

Has there ever been a more feckless President?
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Trump is an awful person.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Big action to follow = No action to follow.
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Pretty much, he's just running his mouth. Trump is a huge baby, can't take the blows to his ego. But there's nothing he can do about it, other than bitch and moan. Which turns out to be what he's best at.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
It's about time!
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Twitter is pretty hands off when it comes to Donald Trump's lies. It is an utterly discredited platform. It goes without saying that I do not have an account there.
 

Stop using the word "coup".

The worst that could have happened is pence.

That is not a "coup" by any definition.

It's just an emotionally weighted term your narrative managers determined gets you all riled up.

It is not an accurate descritptor.

Words have meanings.

Learn them.
 
Rickeroo said:
This is a brilliant move by Trump. He knows Twitter won't 'fact check' leftist propaganda. This will rally his supporters and get them to the polls in November.
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You're fine with the President threatening to defy the First amendment? I bet not many others are. I bet Trump loses a lot of support if he presses this issue.
 
Trump should use a different social media platform. I bet Twitter would have some regrets then.
 

Oh look, another conservative dove.
"Coo! Coo! Coo!"
 
GhostlyJoe said:
This should forever put to rest any notion that Twitter is a utility. Publishers are accountable for what they publish.

Let the lawsuits commence!
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You first.
 
dex4974 said:
Trump should use a different social media platform. I bet Twitter would have some regrets then.
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But that would require an adult decision. So he did something else.
 
Grand Mal said:
You first.
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I'm not on Twitter. I have no grounds for a suit.

But understand that, under U.S. libel law, a publisher that curates content -- like what Twitter is doing here -- accepts accountability for that content.

Copyright claims ... libel .... criminal conspiracy ...

Twitter can't possibly police the content of every user to the degree necessary to protect itself from liability.

So, in the past, Twitter and other social media platforms have argued that they are utilities like the phone company. AT&T is not reponsible for what you say on their network almost entirely because ATT&T doesn't attempt to exercise control over what you say on their network.

So where does that leave Twitter?
 
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