How would one actually implement a high integrity fact-checking service?
Interns.
Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them. Who do you believe should have final say over which person or group of people can have a platform, and who can't? Should it be whoever owns that particular platform? Should it be the government? Should it be the court of public opinion? I've yet to see a compelling argument for deplatforming that answers this question, because w…
The point of deplatforming is not to change the minds of true believers in extremist causes, it’s to hinder their ability to recruit.
Your reply has violated our community guidelines and you have been deducted 5 points for use of the word "extremist". You have 3 points remaining before account suspension.
See how that works? Very slippery slope.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of deplatforming is not to change the minds of true believers in extremist causes, it’s to hinder their ability to recruit.
Your reply has violated our community guidelines and you have been deducted 5 points for use of the word "extremist". You have 3 points remaining before account suspension. See how that works? Very slippery slope.
A slippery slope to what? People migrating to a website that's reasonable?
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your reply has violated our community guidelines and you have been deducted 5 points for use of the word "extremist". You have 3 points remaining before account suspension. See how that works? Very slippery slope.
A slippery slope to what? People migrating to a website that's reasonable?
So you would rather funnel two differing views to two platforms where they can both agree with each other in an echo chamber, rather than reasonable healthy adult discussions and sharing of ideas?
Sounds very segregationist.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have no idea what you're trying to prove. In any case: anti-white racism isn't the same as standard-issue anti-black racism. Racism is more than some people not liking your particular skin color on Twitter. Being black means every police encounter is potentially lethal––see today's news, or that jogger two weeks ago for recent examples. People call the cops when you're birding in Central Park, and unless you're luc…
Anti-black racism is obviously worse than anti-white racism. No rational person would argue that they're equivalent. That does not mean that anti-white racism should be acceptable. It's a pretty simple concept.
No rational person would argue that X racism is worse than Y racism, this kind of thinking is what makes anti-white racism perfectly acceptable hence why you don't see these accounts/tweets taken down.
Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
#236Lol. He often twitters nonsense, but in this case Twitter itself is spreading false information. Of course mail ballots are totally insecure, esp. for nation state actors. Looks like Twitter joined collaboration with the CIA now, who is the relevant nation state actor in this case. There are multiple documented cases.
Same for his Hydroxychloriquine argument, which he promoted as good prevention (which is good information with scientific studies proving it), and this was labeled as false and dangerous information. Probably because Chloroquine phosphat is somewhat dangerous (different drug), and it has no proven treatment effects.
Please fact check the fact check warnings, and beware of dependent media.
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#238I'm finding the response people are having to this mail in voting thing to be...puzzling. It's not a ridiculous thing to wonder about how susceptible mail in voting is to fraud, and it seems like some of us are putting blinders on simply due to our distaste for the current president. If we were to hold a hackathon with a $100,000 prize for the most plausible path to exploit mail in voting in order to swing an electio…
You could literally make the same argument about in person voting. How hard is it to get a fake id ? How about hacking ballot machines ? How about compromised ballot counters ? Yet, there is this weird focus on mailed ballots, which really should be default in a 21st century democracy. Trump is arguing in bad faith
> Yet, there is this weird focus on mailed ballots
It's not that weird. Mailed ballots can be coerced quite trivially at home, out of the view of authorities; no technology hacks or fake ID needed. That's why some of the "fact check" figures themselves are nonsense , such as the one claiming that only 0.00006% of mail votes are fraudulent. That's based on convictions. Nobody knows the real number.
In Northern Ireland postal voting is strictly controlled and monitored and permitted only in individually-reviewed case, because we had decades of coerced fraud by balaclaved men with baseball bats.
Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
#239Before I clicked on the link, I assumed this was yet another egregious lie. But this one really doesn't qualify. It falls squarely in the category of reasonable opinions. Let's look at the claim: "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent". Clearly the veracity of the statement rests on the word "substantially." It's inconceivable that no one ever takes, for exam…
California has been running absentee ballots for a long time. Are you saying all of them had "substantial fraud" ? If so, why didn't the President, who had control of 3 branches of govt and had a commission to prove election fraud, couldn't find any evidence ?
What I heard was that California refused to cooperate, and the commission couldn't do much without their cooperation. Though this is only a rumor I heard.
Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
#240I'd just like to commend Twitter for going the route I suggested YouTube take https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266238
No need to censor, only offer a second opinion