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Applied unequally. Reminds me of these old fact checks during the election: https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts/ https://www.factchec
by isoskeles 6y ago
Applied unequally. Reminds me of these old fact checks during the election:
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts/ https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-fact...
> Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump falsely claimed Clinton “acid washed” 33,000 personal emails to delete them, calling it “an expensive process.” The FBI said Clinton’s tech team used BleachBit, which is a free software program. It does not use chemicals.
These sorts of "fact checks" are blatant horse shit that always go in one direction. Some "challenge", the very antithesis of any sort of good faith discussion on the facts.
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- yibg 6y agoSo fact check the fact check. The response to perceived violation of free speech (fact checking) isn’t blocking speech.
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- amadeuspagel 6y agoHow should this work exactly? In addition to the reply system - someone can post a reply, to which others can in turn reply - we have a fact-check system - someone can post a fact-check which others can in turn fact-check? Isn't that kind of redundant? The entire point of the "fact-check" - and what people object to - is the privileged position, that makes direct replies impossible.
- isoskeles 6y agoOther people aren't able to just slap a fact check directly on anyone's tweet, that all other viewers of the tweet are exposed to with or without clicking through to replies. If you have something to say in good faith, let me know.
- hedora 6y agoYour argument seems to be that substandard fact checkers exist, so all fact checkers are substandard. I don’t see how it follows. In this case, it’s extremely well documented (and there is bipartisan agreement) that mail in ballots are not a substantial source of fraud. States that allow no excuse mail in ballots are evenly split between red and blue. Do you have a specific critique of statements Twitter made in this case?
- isoskeles 6y agoLet's not play coy with this false discussion about mail-in ballots. We both know that's not what this is about. Twitter does not fact-check Democrats. The end.
- joshuamorton 6y agoTwitter also doesn't fact check Republicans. It fact checks exactly one person, known for spreading misinformation.
- philosopher1234 6y agoOk. Let’s not play coy. Is there a particular case where you felt a Democrat fact check was warranted? Frankly I don’t think the democrats lie as much (of course democrats do lie though) as the republican representatives. Furthermore, there’s no democrat with a platform like trump using it as abusively as he is. Trump is in a unique position, and if anyone needs to be fact checked, it’s him. There’s no question in my mind that trump is doing nasty things with his office and his reach, and I’d take a biased fact checker over no fact checker 9 times out of 10.
- isoskeles 6y agoI don't use Twitter, so I couldn't point out a specific tweet. But offhand, let's say any tweet accusing the Trump campaign of collusion with Russia. I'm sure there are hundreds.