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As Winston Churchill said "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." In normal circumstances, that doesn't matter
by taxicab 6y ago
As Winston Churchill said "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
In normal circumstances, that doesn't matter. Talk about it, let it fly around the internet and then in a week or so we'll hear the authoritative rebuttal.
However, we are 20 days from the election. People are literally lined up and voting as we speak.
- joe_the_user 6y agoWhich is to say that Twitter and Facebook seem to have learned something and probably have telemetry telling them when a claim like this is getting legs. My feelings on this are mixed. It's effectively restoring the "old media" order where random trolls can't steal elections. But it's naturally preventing "the truth" from stealing an election too.