Twitter labels Trump's tweets with a fact check for the first time.

[ClearSky24]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/26/trump-twitter-label-fact-check/

"Twitter on Tuesday slapped a fact-check label on President Trump’s tweets for the first time, a response to long-standing criticism that the company is too hands-off when it comes to policing misinformation and falsehoods from world leaders.

The move, which escalates tensions between Washington and Silicon Valley in an election year, was made in response to two Trump tweets over the past 24 hours. The tweets falsely claimed that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. Twitter’s label says, “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” and redirects users to news articles about Trump’s unsubstantiated claim.

The label directs users to articles by CNN, The Washington Post and the Hill, along with selections from the articles and a page summarizing the findings of fact-checkers.

Twitter’s action quickly drew backlash from Trump and his supporters. Twitter “is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,” the president tweeted. “They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post.”"

[Beartracks]

1. Sooo... free speech is "interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election"?

Why don't Republicans understand the First Amendment?

The First Amendment states that the Government shall not abridge free speech. Twitter, or any private enterprise, is free to disallow certain speech or highlight the lies of certain speech if it so chooses. That, incredibly enough, is THEIR free speech right.

And Twitter hasn't even taken down Trump's tweets -- they still get posted in all their glory -- so even in Republicans' ignorant misunderstanding of free speech principles, their argument doesn't work.

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[Cha]

2. What kept them?!

[mopinko]

3. i knew lawrence o'd was a good man, but

when he was the first to call hitler a Liar, i knew which side he was on.
may he live to be 100.

[beachbumbob]

4. Taken YEARS for Twitter to do the moral and ethical move. ANY and ALL tweets that are

nothing but lies and faslehoods made by "public officials" should be, must be fact checked and labeled "Dishonest, false and misleading". Trump will only go more batshit crazy as his ONLY media he operates in turns on him for the lies he tweets.

about FUCKING TIME