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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by colinmorelli on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:48PM (#23318241)
When you have become one of the de-facto news sources for a sizable portion of the population, it does sort of become your job.

Whether it’s good that they have become a news source or not is a valid question. But right now, they are, and I think preserving the president’s tweets seems like a pretty easily defensible decision. Even if it is also (or primarily) motivated by their own business interests.

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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by austincheney on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:08PM (#23318337)
Do you need Twitter to preserve the words of the President, though? Rephrasing, can the President’s words be preserved just as well without Twitter?

If the answer is yes then Twitter isn’t performing the civil service it claims as it is not an archival medium.

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