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Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by pmorici »

telesilla wrote: post #2

What kinds of evidence-based resources are there I can use to send friends who insist on believing in conspiracies? I usually try and find some peer-reviewed research. Maybe they don't read it because of the dryness but it seems to have the most authority.

Believe studies have found that trying to use facts to change people's minds is not effective at least when it comes to politics and beliefs.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/words-matter/201810/...

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by tathougies »

Well, I think we have reached peak fact-checking. The president, regardless of his many demerits, made a prediction on what he think will happen. Regardless of one's views on mail-in voting, it is obvious to anyone with sense that a prediction is not and never will be a 'fact', and cannot be 'checked' by anyone until the event has passed, unless twitter is now also claiming the ability to read the future.

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Post by ashtonkem »

qubex wrote: post #8

Let’s asume this is the first of many such warnings. Let’s also assume that (being a private company) Twitter evades any attempt at pressuring it into desisting (as is indeed likely). Will Trump tweet less? Will he relocate to another platform? (If so, which?) Wil this materially affect his relationship with his followers?

I see no reason why he’d change; both because I doubt he can stop, and because his fans are already well primed to trust him more than tech companies.

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Post by Me1000 »

I'm very interested to see where this goes long term, but just today the widower of Lori Klausutis mailed Jack Dorsey directly, asking Twitter to take down a flagrant lie Trump tweeted about the murdered victim by a morning new host Trump doesn't like. Twitter refused.

There's a lot of content Trump tweets that would get most accounts banned.

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