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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by gurkendoktor on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:21PM (#23354379)
The problem then becomes, who decides which tweets to fact-check? If most politicians at the higher levels are liars, singling out a few of them is unfair even if Trump is notorious for it.

Twitter can clearly not fact-check every single tweet on its platform. But what if they did it for every tweet (maybe from a verified account) that X people report for being untruthful? Trump would look bad even if Twitter held everyone to the same standard, and the blue checkmark would come with some responsibility not to lie, so why not?

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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by youeseh on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:24AM (#23358455)
Who decides which Tweats to fact-check: If someone is famous enough, you can bet that there will be at least one reporter frothing for the opportunity to be counted among trusted fact-checkers. Twitter might have to figure out a balance among reviewers but thats a lot less work than fact-checking each message.
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