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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 11:29 AM Oct 2017

RT uses circular reasoning to bash Twitter for banning RT from advertisements.

Disclaimer: RT is not a trustworthy news-outlet because they regularly lie by omission. Handle with care.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/407858-rt-twitter-us-election/

Here are the facts:

RT never violated any rules while advertising on Twitter.
RT has never dealt with, and will never deal with, bots or any other compromised tools on any social media platform.
RT has never spread any sort of deliberate misinformation. If we had, RT would have been banned by any social media platform in question, as all of them have strict rules regarding policy violations.
RT always has been, is, and will be a reliable partner and publisher on global social media networks which provide opportunities for all media to reach new and diverse audiences.


(emphasis mine)



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RT does not spread misinformation. That is correct.
- RT spreads rumors, but not misinformation.
- RT bills people as policy-experts who are totally unqualified and RT doesn't provide info on who the hell these people are. (Did you know that Alt-Right rape-apologist Mike Cernovich is qualified to talk foreign-policy for an international news-outlet???) But, technically, RT does not spread misinformation.
- RT does leave out critical information that may lead to a wrong understanding of events. But, technically, RT does not spread misinformation.


And of course the circular reasoning:
"Twitter can't ban us, because if we would spread misinformation, social media would already have banned us. Social Media not banning us is proof that Twitter is wrong to ban us."

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RT uses circular reasoning to bash Twitter for banning RT from advertisements. (Original Post) DetlefK Oct 2017 OP
Yep, straight out of Russian propaganda play book uponit7771 Oct 2017 #1
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