I'm glad we finally found a company to tell us what's true - no bias, no spin, just the facts! Thanks, twitter, you've saved the world!!!!
Who asked for twitter to be our fact checker? I don't want any tech company fact checking for me.
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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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I live in Washington State. I mailed my vote in for the 2016 election; doing this is not unprecedented. Why aren't all the expat ballots not faked?
There are lot of interesting rules about such ballots. For example, some states do not count them at all unless the margin of victory is less than the number of eligible or returned absentee ballots.
That...doesn't seem to connect in any way with the question? Are we just free associating now?
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And if that happens, take note of which political parties/groups fight tooth and nail because they know that voter turn out is bad for them. (It's not difficult to predict.)
Isn't too much voter turnout bad though? Do we really want every poor ignorant impoverished (or rich) American voting? Or just the people that take democracy seriously and vote after having puzzled it out? If you reduce the friction too much (or even force people to vote) you'll get a lot of voting based on who promised the most goodies/handouts or emotional appeal rather than rational reasoning.
There are quite a few countries with compulsory voting (1) and it seems to work; it'd make more sense to bolster education than to gatekeep voting to "good" education which slowly over time in the US has moved to private, expensive schools.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if that happens, take note of which political parties/groups fight tooth and nail because they know that voter turn out is bad for them. (It's not difficult to predict.)
Isn't too much voter turnout bad though? Do we really want every poor ignorant impoverished (or rich) American voting? Or just the people that take democracy seriously and vote after having puzzled it out? If you reduce the friction too much (or even force people to vote) you'll get a lot of voting based on who promised the most goodies/handouts or emotional appeal rather than rational reasoning.
> every poor ignorant impoverished
There's some serious bias here. There are poor and impoverished people who are not ignorant. There are also ignorant millionaires. The moment you start saying who shouldn't be voting, make sure you realise how many people think you shouldn't be voting either.
At an extreme of that, see what the threshold of "rich" is for people saying "eat the rich".
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#65I think one of the issues with this will be how it is linking the correct information. I like the little inclusion before tweets, but there's no sources on them. Then when you scroll down on the tweets I see them in this order: The Hill, WaPo, CNN, a CBS News reporter, a Fortune Magazine reporter, a Vox reporter, Sr Political Reporter for Huffington, ACLU Nebraska, a CNN political correspondent. The issue here is tha…
In what sense are CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post hard left?
> In what sense are CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post hard left?
>> The issue here is that everything here is considered the hard left of the media by Fox viewers.
Maybe the edit here makes the statement clearer because before it was implicit.
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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.
I don't know that the users are directly there to interact with the pres, but Twitter certainly benefits from being the US President's megaphone.
They get mentioned in the news hundreds of times a day, and they're "the" platform for all celebs posting their thoughts.
If POTUS moves to, say, Facebook, they lose all that free advertising.
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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.
> Shareholder responsibilities
There's nothing I'd rather say on my deathbed than "I was really good for the shareholders." Seriously, life is too short. Ban the president. Go down in history. Be someone. Jack or whoever will die being nothing more than a low-tier mascot for the long dead American dream. But banning the president... it would be very literally epic.
What I really want to say on my deathbed is "I lived a great story," so IMO it's a no brainer.
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Shareholder responsibilities. I would guess that a good chunk of Twitter users are there to read and interact with the president's tweets.
What do you mean "interact"? He virtually never posts any responses, the account is close to broadcast-only. There's also no real interaction in the replies: even if you manage to scroll past the kneejerk responses and product spam thriving on controversy, what are the chances you'll find anyone to actually interact with?
By “interact with the tweets” I see as fwd, replies, sharing
How much digital ink is spent on exhaust from his tweets?
Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
#69I'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…
I think it's reasonable to wonder if mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud, but there is not a lot of evidence that such fraud is widespread. In particular, Trump's tweet is completely off base with what election experts already know about voter fraud. > Now we're expecting that states will radically alter their voting system, in 5 months, and that it won't be vulnerable to interference? Are mail in ballots for ev…
I am not sure whether there has ever been mail-in voter fraud, but it seems like the relevant agencies actively or passively avoid collection of data which might demonstrate or disprove such fraud. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
#70I think one of the issues with this will be how it is linking the correct information. I like the little inclusion before tweets, but there's no sources on them. Then when you scroll down on the tweets I see them in this order: The Hill, WaPo, CNN, a CBS News reporter, a Fortune Magazine reporter, a Vox reporter, Sr Political Reporter for Huffington, ACLU Nebraska, a CNN political correspondent. The issue here is tha…
None of those news outlets you mentioned are "hard left". They are corporatist status quo. They are all in support of Joe Biden who is hardly "left" at all
>> The issue here is that everything here is considered the hard left of the media by Fox viewers.
Maybe the edit here makes the statement clearer because before it was implicit.