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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @05:17PM (16 children)
That is only because Republicans have become so extremely rightwing that even lite conservativism like CNN etc. look partisan to you. As a liberal I can safely say that no MSM outlet comes close to my political preferences, they are all flavors of corporate conservatism.
You really should take a vacation and spend some time attempting to critically and objectively analyze conservative and liberal viewpoints. You might be surprised to find that conservatives embody most everything they criticize, in this instance your martyr "snowflake" complex. This COVID issue is also a great example, why are conservatives complaining so much about wearing masks and social distancing? Hardly a cross to bear compared to invading the Middle East with a good chance of dismemberment and death, but hey SUPPORT THE TROOPS, THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AMIRITE?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:00PM (13 children)
I'm a liberal too but the type who feels backstabbed by the DNC. One can make peace with one's enemies or engage in temporary detente when interests align, but traitors, that's a different matter.
As for Republicans becoming super right-wing -- I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing a DNC permeated by FBI, CIA, NSA operatives, a strange newage McCarthyism, a fat hardon for regime change, in banksters back pockets, and a corporate friendly woke agenda that threatens none of those institutional players but does make people completely immune to considering other positions -- you don't negotiate with actual nazis, you kill actual nazis.
And just so we're crystal clear, the most fascistic right wing policy possible, is to execute American citizens without trial for the content of their speech. And that policy, that's on Obama. It was when I learned about due process free execution of citizens (and let's remember that Democrats excoriated GWB for mere due process free detention of foreigners (gitmo)) that my growing doubts about Democrats crystalized -- they don't care about evil policies, they care only that THEY get implement evil policy. Sorry, I'm not in that tribe. I don't care red or blue, I care about policy.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:20PM (9 children)
Holy whataboutism batman!
Why is it OK for Republicans, such as Trump's press secretary [tampabay.com] and Trump himself [cnn.com] to vote by mail but not OK for us to?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:35PM (8 children)
Really? killing citizens without trial for saying stuff doesn't phase you one bit?
I would say everything else is whataboutism. There is no policy that is a greater human rights violation than that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:44PM (6 children)
I too was opposed to those, however, it could easily be argued that those people were enemy combatants as they were putting in with people that we were at war with (even if it was a largely undeclared war, it was authorized by congress under the AUMF, at least according to some legal scholars).
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:49PM (5 children)
No such evidence was ever presented at a public trial as required by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The ONLY facts we have, are that Americans were murdered by the Feds because they said stuff the Feds did not like. That's fascist. Pure simple authoritarian evil and there is no justification possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @08:49PM (4 children)
Believe it or not my left-wing ass agrees with you. Many liberals weren't huge fans of Obama, but he was better than most that came before him.
I find it strange that you would then go on to stupport the GOP, it isn't like US fascism hasn't been around for a good long time. Maybe the droning of a US citizen was what woke you up, but all I see from you is mostly conservative tropes. I would think the GOP senate declining to hear evidence in the impeachment trial would rile you up at least a little bit as much.
Ah well, strange times we live in where humans don't know who to trust or what to believe.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 27 2020, @09:05PM
I believe the parties are in the process of reversing roles. It's happened in the past, for example with slavery/race issues. Going forward, I suspect the "right" (I don't even know what the correct word is anymore honestly) is going to be increasingly inclusive, it certainly is more willing to engage in discussion and entertain opposing viewpoints -- the left (if that's the right term) is all in on cancel culture and displaying every greater authoritarian tendencies. I see the DNC becoming the establishment party and the GOP is close to taking up the banner of counter-cultural rebels. Ten years will tell.
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican, but as I've said before, I used to be a Dem, I feel betrayed by them, and the deepest hatred is reserved for one's traitors, not one's enemies. And yeah, I'll admit it: if Trump wins, I will experience schadenfreude even greater than I did last time, even though I voted Green. I want nothing more than to see the entire Clintonian cancer on the DNC, utterly humiliated and excised so we can get to something decent.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @09:58PM (2 children)
I had big hopes for him. And he didn't get anything done at all. Things continued like under Baby Bush. Americans were droned, spied upon; Guantanamo remains open; we fucked up Libya and the Ukraine.
Perhaps he got a visit early on that convinced him not to interfere with the deep state.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @01:25AM (1 child)
There is no deep state, just oligarchies doing their thing like in every country ever. All the buzzwords like terrorist, deep state, conspiracy, military action, those are all to create an air of mystery. To make people thinking something new and different is going on instead of the long history of the wealthy oppressing the poor.
It is tragic how well the bullshit works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:18AM
They employ gamekeepers whose job it is corral those even more unfortunate away from the important people.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Thursday May 28 2020, @10:06PM
Only a democrat would dwonmod a post that condemns a star chamber of the US Executive branch killing its citizens without trial.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:22PM (2 children)
I agree, but I see republicans utterly decimated as a party. The religious freaks I hated have mostly disappeared from public view. The tea-partyers have evaporated. What does the republican pary still stand for? Currently all energy seems to go defending Trump, a refugee from the democrat party, from the relentless MSM onslaught.
The democrat party is not in much better shape, but they still have their core constituencies of the media elites and welfare recipients.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:29PM (1 child)
"media elites and welfare recipients"
Ho boy, I know that has been a conservative mantra for a long time now, but damn if it isn't the most clueless shit around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @07:11PM
The first step is to admit the Republican party has a problem. Jared is re-writing the party platform in advance of the Republican National Convention at Mar-ol-Lager. "Some good people" expected to be in attendance. "Welfare recipients" is so pre-Clinton!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:30PM (1 child)
Trump threatens to shut down social media after Twitter fact-checks him [chicagotribune.com]
And what would actually be unconstitutional government censorship is completely fine, according to all these censorship wolf-criers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @01:03AM
Thankfully Tim Pool gets it. [youtube.com]