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1. kauffj ◴[] No.23323078[source]
However you feel about this, Twitter did it in pretty much the worst way possible.

1. They had someone with a clear history of strong anti-Trump and anti-Republican sentiment take the action (https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...)

2. Twitter chose a prediction rather than a factual statement to fact check ("Mail-In Ballots will be..."). Why not start with a truly factually wrong statement about the past?

3. They picked something that is actually debatable! A bipartisan committee concluded it carried some risks in 2005: https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger...

The notion that a company can ever be trusted to "fact check" (aka determine objective truth) is just completely laughable. The closest we can come is labeling agent beliefs about truth ("X says Y is false").

Doing nothing would be better than doing this. Even better would be building solutions that allow community-based (and ideally personalized) derivations of consensus (this is what we're doing at LBRY).

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2. fantastisch ◴[] No.23323189[source]
Agreed. Pretty much asking for an intervention. Practically begging for a crackdown. Larger plan?
3. nautilus12 ◴[] No.23323204[source]
Wow a comment that isn't just calling trump a racist and is calmly laying out the facts....
4. SV_BubbleTime ◴[] No.23323753[source]
I don’t understand why this is downvoted. You laid out good reasons to explain twitter did this in the worst possible way.

Do people here just not want to see it regardless of its factual nature? That seems like the eventual issue with “fact checking” social media posts.