Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

Post by adrianmonk » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:06 AM UTC

wwright wrote: post #39

blhack wrote: post #33

I'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…

Trump isn’t really “criticizing” mail-in voting in a responsible and measured way here though, is he? He’s claiming that it is a scam by his enemies that will definitely result in massive voting fraud. Is there any evidence for him to make those claims at all? Is there any other way he could have responded, even if he did genuinely care about empowering citizens to vote?

Post by jolux » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

henriquez wrote: post #53

jolux wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what sense are CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post hard left?

I think it’s more fair to characterize them as corporatist and neoconservative/neoliberal. If the mainstream media were actually left-wing they would be propagandizing for Bernie Sanders. Instead they’re propagandizing in favor of old-guard politicians like Mitt Romney and Nancy Pelosi. But no matter how you slice it, it’s still propaganda. I agree with the parent commenter that this will only backfire, likely causin…

Post by aaaaaaaaaaa10 » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

colinmorelli wrote: post #19

austincheney wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by jolux » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:08 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #65

jolux wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by blhack » Wed, May 27, 2020, 12:09 AM UTC

fzeroracer wrote: post #76

blhack wrote: post #33

I'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'm more curious as to why you're giving Trump such a high benefit of the doubt giving his rampant lies in the past. The reality is that most mail-in voting operates via what is effectively a two factor auth system or a handshake authentication system. Person A gets official mail being told they can register to vote. Person A goes to site and registers to vote. Then they receive a ballot sometime before election day,…