> In the end, does anyone really care if Twitter is "truthful"? As it's becoming an ever-increasing method of communication between government officials and wh

> In the end, does anyone really care if Twitter is "truthful"? As it's becoming an ever-increasing method of communication between government officials and whatnot, I'd say some amount of "truthfulness" and "validity" is warranted. The other day a member of the US government (I think it was Ted Cruz? I can't find it at the moment) wrote a tweet that implied he thought the Paris Climate agreement only affected the citizens of Paris. Something as factually "write/wrong" as that should be able to be contested and held accountable to being "wrong" That being said, I agree with you that this will not be used as intended and will undoubtedly lead to more confusion and confirmation bias from all sides. Using crowd-sourced knowledge in this manner leads to the assumption that "what the majority thinks is right is factual," and I'm reminded it was once "fact" that the sun rotated around the Earth