Twitter says the coronavirus outbreak prompted it to re-evaluate its approach to these gray-area tweets and treat some of them as potentially dangerous.“We now have the tools in place to label content that may contain misleading claims that could cause offline harm,” said Rosborough. Those tools include the warning labels attached to Trump’s tweets that link to a Twitter “Moment,” or collection of content, explaining objections to his post.
On Tuesday, Twitter added warning labels to two Trump tweets claiming, without evidence, that mail-in ballots, like those being used in California amid the pandemic, are likely to be “substantially fraudulent.” The labels directed users to a link to "get the facts about mail-in ballots.” The company has made other recent moves in the political arena meant to inoculate it against complaints that it’s destabilizing democracy in the United States but that have also served to anger some on the right, includingThe coronavirus lesson for Twitter was that the company’s trust and safety team, which is charged with taking action on inappropriate posts, could selectively challenge tweets that don’t violate its stated rules —that gets tweets deleted for specific behaviors like encouraging...
Bologna!
You are lying. On July 4th let's tell BoycottTwitter what we think of that arrogance.
This seems like an unforced error by Twitter. Their political bias is obvious, but I didn't expect them to literally hand the president the legal opportunity to take away their protections as a 'platform.'
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Weak. They should apply the same rules to all users.
yeah but the warning was that it was not racist enough for Twitter.
Been following him 3 yrs before he become Prez...my sole reason for following him was entertainment elements from his tweets. He kept up his habits even after becoming prez. fact checking is supposed to be done on his every tweet 🙂
Of Zuckerberg truly feels his platform cannot arbitrate 1+1=3, there may be something more fundamentally wrong with him.
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Thank you twitter for finally providing fact checks on 45. No matter what side of the aisle you are on, THE TRUTH is a public service. It’s the patriotic thing for Twitter to do.🇺🇸
It really is his inability to emotionally regulate himself, but go with a pandemic.
Misleading tweets? Surely she meant to say lies.
Yet it's biased on its face.
It wasn't a fact check. It directed users to an opinion editorial
If Twitter wants to commit suicide, go ahead.
I knock Zuckerberg for FB not Fact-checking Trump and other people speaking from their official positions. Americans know the crazy uncle speech difference of officials spreading propaganda and conspiracies. We expect people in official positions to be scrutinized.
What ?!? It was fact-checked with opinion articles from CNN and The Washington post
Oh, no, they were free to do this long before now.
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