Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
by blhack on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:53PM
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A multinational company just decided to put their finger on the scale of a US election. I think that decision and the way it was made invites scrutiny.
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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
by dbbk on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:00AM
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So do you think that journalists should not fact check politicians either?
Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
by klyrs on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:25PM
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Well, that's certainly Trump's characterization of the situation. Fox News has also been fact-checking him lately and he's similarly outraged. Bottom line, the Founders' remedy to false speech by government officials is the freedom to discuss those lies in an open forum.
Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
by fzeroracer on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:58PM
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He's the president of the United States operating on a private platform owned by a private company! No one should be above reproach on such a platform and that includes the president.
If he doesn't like it, he can direct Lockheed Martin and tell them to spend a couple billion dollars on making Litter. At least then it'll go to something slightly more productive than whatever contracts they're currently siphoning money off of.