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What is electoral fake news may turn out to be true. Kinda foolish to ask platforms to decide what is true and what is not. Remember the Hunter Biden laptop st

What is electoral fake news may turn out to be true. Kinda foolish to ask platforms to decide what is true and what is not. Remember the Hunter Biden laptop story? Was it fake news?

bdcravens 3y ago
I tend to agree with your first point, and feel that for user-driven content, allowing users to submit context to be displayed below the source is a good middle-ground. As for the second point, I think that most critical thinkers understand that the laptop changed hands several times, undermining the "news" of the matter.
- Georgelemental 3y ago
  As far as I am aware, the laptop's original owner has not denied that the content that's been made public is genuine. If the info had been tampered with, I think Hunter Biden would have said so.
  - bdcravens 3y ago
    He actually recently filed a lawsuit claiming that Giuliani et al altered data. https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-laptop-lawsuit-94fbf97f52aea73b8421e3be017767f1 https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-laptop-lawsuit-94fbf... "The suit filed in California also claims Biden’s data was “manipulated, altered and damaged” before it was sent to Giuliani and Costello, and has been further altered since then."
HumblyTossed 3y ago
How was/is Hunter Biden "electoral news". He never ran for office.
- Georgelemental 3y ago
  His father did, and was involved in his son's business deals.
  - HumblyTossed 3y ago
    But, Jared is fine... right?
    - Georgelemental 3y ago
      No he's not, I can't stand the guy and Trump 160% deserves major flak for letting him within 100 miles of power.
infotogivenm 3y ago
the biden laptop story was temporarily banned for less than 24hrs as it violated various twitter rules for hacked content and nudity. The “Twitter Files” (cue x-files theme) show us this - it was certainly not banned because users reported it as fake news using a tool like this.
- pauldenton 3y ago
  From Twitter yes. But NYPpost being banned and 50 intelligence agencies saying it had all the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation kept the ball out of the court until after the election.

What is electoral fake news may turn out to be true. Kinda foolish to ask platforms to decide what is true and what is not. Remember the Hunter Biden laptop story? Was it fake news?

bdcravens 3y ago

I tend to agree with your first point, and feel that for user-driven content, allowing users to submit context to be displayed below the source is a good middle-ground. As for the second point, I think that most critical thinkers understand that the laptop changed hands several times, undermining the "news" of the matter.

Georgelemental 3y ago
As far as I am aware, the laptop's original owner has not denied that the content that's been made public is genuine. If the info had been tampered with, I think Hunter Biden would have said so.
- bdcravens 3y ago
  He actually recently filed a lawsuit claiming that Giuliani et al altered data. https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-laptop-lawsuit-94fbf97f52aea73b8421e3be017767f1 https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-laptop-lawsuit-94fbf... "The suit filed in California also claims Biden’s data was “manipulated, altered and damaged” before it was sent to Giuliani and Costello, and has been further altered since then."

HumblyTossed 3y ago

How was/is Hunter Biden "electoral news". He never ran for office.

Georgelemental 3y ago
His father did, and was involved in his son's business deals.
- HumblyTossed 3y ago
  But, Jared is fine... right?
  - Georgelemental 3y ago
    No he's not, I can't stand the guy and Trump 160% deserves major flak for letting him within 100 miles of power.

infotogivenm 3y ago

the biden laptop story was temporarily banned for less than 24hrs as it violated various twitter rules for hacked content and nudity. The “Twitter Files” (cue x-files theme) show us this - it was certainly not banned because users reported it as fake news using a tool like this.

pauldenton 3y ago
From Twitter yes. But NYPpost being banned and 50 intelligence agencies saying it had all the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation kept the ball out of the court until after the election.