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Here's simple fact check. Twitter is not _the_ place where political discourse happens. You're discussing politics on HN right now.

• partyboat1586 6y ago
  It's the place that regularly gets quoted on major networks and newspapers. This is a minority website with nowhere near as much impact.
  • asdgopiahsogfi 6y ago
    That still doesn't make it _the_ place for political discourse. Reddit gets quoted quite often. Tons of politicians do AMA on Reddit and Facebook. Just because Trump is on Twitter doesn't make it special.
    • partyboat1586 6y ago
      Every major public figure is on Twitter. That is the difference. Reddit is still small fry.
    • pas 6y ago
      That's not how these kinds of "facts" work. If someone tried to use this during some kind of proceeding the court will determine this. (Using a jury or not, expert witnesses or not, doesn't matter.) Usually fact checking "services" like snopes.com, politifact, or WaPo with the pinocchio heads, have a consistent model about what they are willing to touch, how they approach it, and how they determine factualness, etc. Just throwing out that Twitter is or isn't _the_ platform makes no sense.