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> Verify major party candidates for all statewide and federal elective offices, and major national party accounts, as a hedge against impersonation It would be
by cgb223 9y ago
> Verify major party candidates for all statewide and federal elective offices, and major national party accounts, as a hedge against impersonation
It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat?
What about Libertarian and Green Party candidates?
3rd party runs like Ross Perot?
If I don't have a political party until election time like Emmanuel Macron, does that qualify me?
What about fringe extremist candidates do they get the same treatment as their more traditional less hateful counterparts?
> the 3,814 identified IRA-linked accounts posted 175,993 Tweets, approximately 8.4% of which were election-related.
I wonder what the other 91.6% of tweets were about
- craftyguy 9y ago> It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat? I'm almost 100% certain they just mean Republican and Democrat. 3rd parties are (very) rarely invited to highly-publicized debates and/or granted equal air time when compared to the the Rs and Ds. Why would twitter 'elevate' them to the same level?
- cgb223 9y agoIs verifying a candidate's identity on Twitter the same thing as elevating them?
- craftyguy 9y agoConsidering a candidate from a 3rd party as a member of a 'major party' is indeed elevating them. For the record, I wish we had a true multi-party system.
- joelrunyon 9y agoThat's because the commission that puts together the debates is own by the Rs & Ds and purposely have worked since Perot to exclude 3rd parties. http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presidential-debates-1 http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presiden...
- tomkat0789 9y agoI voted for a third party last year and I didn't even know that this case happened! Thanks for posting the link. That said, is anti trust law and loose metaphors to markets the best they could do to attack the two party system? That, and if anti trust law were useful for anything the US corporate landscape would look very different.