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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 3 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.71s | source
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paganel ◴[29 May 20 07:40 UTC] No.23347256[source]▶
I said it yesterday and got downvotes, Twitter’s CEO decided to pick sides in the political battle so they should expect what’s coming to them.
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rootlocus ◴[29 May 20 07:42 UTC] No.23347279[source]▶
Fact checking doesn't imply picking sides. Not fact checking does.
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1. xpaqui ◴[29 May 20 09:40 UTC] No.23348045[source]▶
Can you explain how not fact checking implies picking a side?
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2. rootlocus ◴[29 May 20 10:11 UTC] No.23348224[source]▶
No fact check = implicit trust
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3. moojd ◴[29 May 20 13:21 UTC] No.23349646[source]▶
Not fact checking is only picking a side once you have decided to fact check. Before all of this twitter could claim to be a medium of communication. There isn't implicit trust that something is true because it is written on paper, posted on a billboard, or appears on TV. By choosing to mark tweets as true or false, they are no longer just a medium of communication. We can now imply that if twitter does not mark a tweet as false, they are endorsing that tweet as true.