Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets

[uppityperson]

Source: NYT

Twitter on Thursday added new fact-checking labels to hundreds of tweets, even as the Trump administration prepared an executive order to curtail the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content posted on their platforms.
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But Twitter has doubled down. Early Thursday, it added fact-checking labels to messages from Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry who had claimed that the coronavirus outbreak may have begun in the United States and been brought to China by the U.S. military.

Twitter also added notices on hundreds of tweets that falsely claimed a photo of a man in a red baseball cap was Derek Chauvin, an officer involved in the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died this week after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by police. The Twitter label alerted viewers that the image was “manipulated media.”
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A Twitter spokeswoman said that the tweets modified on Thursday contained “potentially misleading content” and that the fact-checking was consistent with the company’s approach this month. In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, also said he would not back down from the fact-checking effort. “We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information,” he wrote.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/trump-twitter-fact-check.html

[GusBob]

1. Fascinating Dynamic

Are the Trumpers gonna whine about the fact checking of China's lies?

[dem4decades]

2. Twitter can give Trump Pinocchios just like the Post now.

[moosewhisperer]

3. Waiting...

When will they call out Shitler’s Scarborough tweets?

[RKP5637]

5. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[flibbitygiblets]

12. This!

[RKP5637]

4. Excellent. It's a great first step toward cleaning up bullshit lies. n/t

[C Moon]

6. Trump's pissed (because Putin's pissed) that they can't use the 2016 playbook...

first a higher amount of voting by mail, now this.

[RainCaster]

7. Sure they can! Komrade Zuck will be quite happy to accommodate DFT's Russian troll farms

Zuckerberg has stated that it is not FB's place to decide the truthiness of anything. He will take money from anyone- bot or human.

[BigmanPigman]

17. Good point!

[leftieNanner]

18. Which is why I no longer go on FB

I used to enjoy reading stuff about old friends.

Now I just can't support that asshole by clicking on the website. It's actually not that difficult. It's installed on my desktop computer in the basement and now that I have a laptop (upstairs!) that does NOT have FB loaded, I am freed from bondage! Plus when my old cell phone died a few years ago, I didn't install it on my new phone. TA-DAAA!

[kurtcagle]

23. Trump wouldn't take him up on it.

Zuckerberg's been watching a not so slow hemorrhage from Facebook for some time now, first because of the migration of GenZers to Instagram and from there to Snapchat, and then migration of professionals to Linked In. Of course, that also gives Trump a considerably smaller "audience" that are already somewhat self-selected.

[Dave Starsky]

27. That's because Zuckerberg is a terrible pedophile.

At least, that's the story I've seen circulating on Facebook lately. I'm not saying it's true, but that's what I'm hearing. Lots of people are saying it.

[monmouth4]

8. What about those voting machines Ivanka got the patents for. Mail-In Voting is really going to

screw that up. I'm so happy..

[DENVERPOPS]

20. How does anyone know

That her "voting Machines" aren't ones that scan the mail in votes. They require programing and can be directed to post false information also......

[reACTIONary]

26. She didn't get any patents for voting machines...

.... she got trademarks. And who the hell is going to buy an Ivanka voting machine?

[monmouth4]

28. Ahh, my bad. Sorry..n/t

[Cha]

9. TY Twitter!

[TreadSoftly]

10. Where do I volunteer to help label the others going back half a decade? (nt)

[Crowman2009]

11. Just delete orange shit-for-brains damn account already!

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Like Jack or hate Jack

you have to know he understands the role of facts and truth in every type of communication, and every company or profession that relies on facts or truth in its business. Courts, sports, journalism, politics ... we are in deep propaganda if facts and truth become totally fluid and unreliable.

"Do you swear to tell all lies, and nothing but lies?"

Imagine a sporting event where every player wore someone else's jersey and number.

Judges and juries are baffled, capricious, unreliable, and worthless if no one tells the truth.

Drumpf is going deep Goebbels here. You can't regulate truth and balance any more than you can morality. This EO is attempting to force Fox News standards onto social media. It must be an epic fail, and very very soon. Court cases predicted.

[sarchasm]

19. If Jack Dorsey had any balls...

...he’d use the POTUS’ (aka the government) speech as a case to ban him because the government is infringing on Twitter’s speech by calling out his BS.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Your analogy about sports is not great

If a player is caught wearing a different number jersey than assigned to him, it usually results in ejection from the game unless the refs acknowledge the change in advance of the game and inform the other team's coach.......

[bucolic_frolic]

22. My analogy about sports is great in its entirety

The whole point being, you don't follow the rules when distorting reality to suit your own agenda. Refs no longer enforce that rule in this hypothetical. Truth, logic, facts, rules, convention have been abandoned.

[orangecrush]

14. Close his account

End of problem.

[Thekaspervote]

16. Or dotard's handlers can tell him not to tweet!

[zentrum]

15. Had no idea Twitter

.....was capable of being this principled in the face of bullying.

Thank you Twitter.

[Hulk]

24. Not impressed...😒

This Draft Dodging Coward Con-artist Liar has been spewing shit for over 4 years as the repuKKKe orange god...and they are JUST NOW waking the fuck up???

EVERYONE of his g'damned tweets needs to be marked. He's pulled this shit from their site since before he came down his escalator with his nude pin up trophy wife #3.

Better late than never...but pretty damned late to the party. It's nearly over...ASSHOLES!!

[GulfCoast66]

25. Dude who owns it is a multi billionaire, right?

Assuming all his wealth is not tied into Twitter stock, why not just shut the whole thing down?

Put out a statement that he will not run a Private company that A fascist president is trying to control. Say he will restart it when we have legitimate government.

Then pull the big ‘Off’ lever. Trump would have a coronary if there was no Twitter.

He still owns the name. Yeah, other sites will try to monopolize the game but it will be scattered. Then restart it when we have a legitimate president.

Obviously, while doing well, I don’t think like a billionaire!