Seems like this policy will be difficult to scale... Who is taking odds on Trump threatening a DOJ investigation before the week is over?
Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
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#12If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.
I understand this route. The President of the United States already has a gigantic platform, so it's not like he'll just go away like @nero did. This gives Twitter a chance to annotate his hate with facts, and hopefully reach his audience. Banning him just makes him a martyr, without lessening his reach.
I do wish the UI was a bit... angrier. The friendly light blue doesn't exactly scream "misinformation!"
But as they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Removing him from Twitter won't make him or his base any less hateful. It's a constant reminder that he needs to be removed. I think if Twitter and news organizations just started ignoring him, many people would forget how horrible he is.
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#13Curious what the process was in designing that warning. How did they A/B test this? How did they experiment with different fonts, colors, and spaces?
Looks like they tested it earlier this year. The demo was a bright orange notice. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-testing-new-w...
This is neat, thanks.
It’s interesting that in the article they write: “A leaked demo features bright red and orange badges for tweets that are deemed "harmfully misleading."”
But currently, they didn’t use that approach. Right now the warning tag is an exclamation point circled badge with blue text.
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#14If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.
Why wouldn't you? Life is way too short to pass up on the opportunity to ban a president. The lulz would last centuries.
Shareholder responsibilities. I would guess that a good chunk of Twitter users are there to read and interact with the president's tweets.
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#15I don't follow Trump on Twitter but go and look up his feed regularly by Googling 'donald trump twitter'. I always get there by the first result.
This morning? He doesn't seem to be on the front page at all... the first result is for a search done on twitter.con for 'donald trump twitter', the next result is for the POTUS account. I would say this fact checking thing has had a knock on effect to search results.
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#16If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.
Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the tweets against the violations of the tweets. EDIT>> I dug up the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K571_jqnCpM
Did Dorsey clarify what he meant by public interests? That sounds like a vague distraction.
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#17If Covid second wave happens in November, large scale mail in ballot efforts could lead to the biggest voter turn out in American history.
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#18If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.
I understand this route. The President of the United States already has a gigantic platform, so it's not like he'll just go away like @nero did. This gives Twitter a chance to annotate his hate with facts, and hopefully reach his audience. Banning him just makes him a martyr, without lessening his reach. I do wish the UI was a bit... angrier. The friendly light blue doesn't exactly scream "misinformation!" But as the…
I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them. Didn't the Reddit folks discover that shutting down hateful subreddits prevents them from popping back up effectively? I believe this is the citation[1].
[1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the tweets against the violations of the tweets. EDIT>> I dug up the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K571_jqnCpM
Did Dorsey clarify what he meant by public interests? That sounds like a vague distraction.
I think "preserving the words of the president" probably fits pretty squarely in the realm of public interest, even if they're blatantly false.
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#20Left leaning media is going way too far with their grasp of any news narrative. Mail in voting is susceptible to fraud- that’s the truth regardless of your political affiliation. Ballots can be filled out by someone other than the voter, votes can be lost in the mail, and even stuffed by those trusted to oversee the process like in extreme cases in Philadelphia last week: https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-phi…
That story is literally about someone hitting a voting machine over and over in person.
Bad troll is bad.