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Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

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707 points patd | 1 comments | 27 May 20 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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VBprogrammer ◴[27 May 20 13:33 UTC] No.23322903[source]▶
Can this even be considered a free speech issue? They aren't deleting his tweet, only displaying it alongside a fact check. Of course you can try to call into question the impartiality of the fact check but that is a long way from not deciding not to show the content.
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mathdev ◴[27 May 20 18:22 UTC] No.23327571[source]▶
A fact check would be fine if it led to objective analyses of some sort, or even Wikipedia. But when I clicked it, it displayed some highly partisan sources, including a CNN article with its usual "Trump bad" vitriol. Maybe it was an algorithm's fault, but it didn't work at all.
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gameswithgo ◴[27 May 20 18:54 UTC] No.23328067[source]▶
How do you objectively report on trump without it painting him in a bad light?
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1. three_seagrass ◴[27 May 20 19:34 UTC] No.23328724[source]▶
One way is showing what multiple experts and news sources say about the facts, such as the Washington Post, The Hill, Forbes, the ACLU, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, ABC News, Fortune Magazine, Vox, MSNBC, Huffington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Which Twitter did - https://twitter.com/i/events/1265330601034256384

This focus on complaining about just CNN is a red herring.