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Twitter adds label to Trump's misleading tweets about mail-in ballots:
Twitter said Tuesday that it added a label to President Donald Trump's tweets for containing "potentially misleading information about voting processes," a rare move that shows the social media company is taking a tougher stance against misinformation.
It's the first time that Twitter has displayed a label on Trump's tweets.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted that "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-in-Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent," a claim that has been debunked by fact-checkers and news organizations. He continues his remarks in another tweet, stating that it will be a "Rigged election."
A label appears under both tweets that states "Get the facts about mail-in ballots." Clicking on the warning notice directs users to a page that states that fact-checkers say there isn't any evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud. Trump also falsely states in the tweets that California will send mail-in ballots to "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there" when only registered voters will receive ballots. States such as Oregon, Utah and Washington have long conducted elections by mail only, while states such as Nebraska allow any voter to request a ballot and vote by mail without having to provide a reason.
A Twitter spokeswoman said in a statement that the decision is in line with how the company approaches misinformation on its site, which includes adding warning notices and labels depending on the likelihood and severity of harm a tweet could cause.
Twitter's actions against Trump's tweets will also likely increase tensions between the company and conservative users, who allege that the social network suppresses their speech. Twitter has repeatedly denied those allegations. Earlier this month, Trump tweeted that the "Radical Left" is in control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google and said his administration is working on a solution.
In two tweets, Trump accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 US presidential election.
"Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!," he tweeted.
Also at BBC News, Ars Technica, MIT Technology Review
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @03:33PM (10 children)
Except yourself of course.
The trouble here is that you're such a fecking narcissist you think you know everything. As usual you're in here obliquely supporting Trump. You know, the guy who never backs up his claims and who is statistically more likely to be telling a lie at any given time of day.
Fascism is here, has been here for longer than Trump, but if you don't get it with the Orange Fuhrer then you're bloody stupid.
(Score: 3, Funny) by khallow on Wednesday May 27 2020, @05:09PM (8 children)
The "if you're not rabidly against Trump, you're for him" argument. Sorry, you just didn't show enough zeal in that terrible argument to properly support it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @05:50PM (7 children)
Not my fault you suck at pattern recognition. Have the lard butt dump a copy of the database and I'll dig up your proof.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 27 2020, @07:28PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @09:53PM
You would know ;) was Stormy telling the truth?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 27 2020, @11:22PM (4 children)
There's an API [soylentnews.org]. You're fully capable of doing that yourself. Oh, did I fuck your narrative up with facts? My bad.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @01:52AM (3 children)
Well if you'd made it easier to pull all comments for a user, even if in batches, I'd have bothered. Instead it looks like I'd have to write a script to get all story and journal IDs to pull your comments from, and due to the lack of details in the docs there is no guarantee it would work.
Write a better API if you wanna weasel your way out with that.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 28 2020, @03:30AM (2 children)
So not only are you full of shit but you suck so hard at coding that you can't even write a bash one-liner to iterate over all integers from 1 to whatever the CID of this comment turns out to be and dump them into a directory, one comment per file? Sad.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @05:54AM (1 child)
Incorrect jackass, as usual you just highlight your sadly lacking skills of reading comprehension.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 28 2020, @02:13PM
I'd generally have said submit a pull request if you want specific functionality added to the API but if you can't figure out how to iterate over a set of integers I don't want to have to review any code you submit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday May 29 2020, @01:21AM
I dunno...I think you have to have an actual ability to understand true and false to be able to lie. Trump just says nonsense and wills it to be true.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"