Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots

[mystery-ak]

Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots

Aaron Klein 27 May 2020

Twitter for the first time put a fact-check label on tweets from President Trump, using the controversial tactic on messages in which the president complained there is “no way” that “mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.”

It may be instructive that Twitter seized on the mail-in balloting tweets as the first issue from Trump’s rapid fire social media feed to slap with a fact-check label. Twitter did not disclose in its so-called fact-check it is partners with two groups financed by leftist donors that engage in voter participation efforts, including drives pushing mail-in balloting.

Twitter sits on the “Premier Partner” list of one of those groups alongside ViacomCBS, the merger of Viacom and CBS. Twitter’s so-called fact-check about Trump’s mail-in balloting cited CBS political reporter Grace Segers vouching for mail-in voting.

Analysts have posited such proposals help the Democratic Party. Republicans specifically fear the prospect of voter fraud, since mail-in voting would be harder to authenticate.

Yesterday, Trump tweeted the following, earning him the badge reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots”:

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/27/twitters-trump-fact-check-does-not-disclose-company-partnered-with-groups-pushing-mail-in-ballots/

[mystery-ak]

Kellyanne Conway: Trump's Twitter fact checks done by 'people who attack him all day long'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/499730-conway-trumps-twitter-fact-checks-done-by-people-who-attack-him-all

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Kellyanne Conway: Trump's Twitter fact checks done by 'people who attack him all day long'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/499730-conway-trumps-twitter-fact-checks-done-by-people-who-attack-him-all

He deserves it. The nerve of Trump putting a mirror up to lying liars like Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on Twitter.

[catfish1957]

He deserves it. The nerve of Trump putting a mirror up to lying liars like Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on Twitter.

I consider Mika and Joe minor players, when you have a POS like Colbert reaching 100X the size audience spewing his vile lies and slander.   That's the mofo that needs muzzling. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Doesn't this new feature amount to Twitter becoming a content provider on Twitter?  As Marco Rubio pointed out, that makes them a "publisher" and it might be time to examine the ramifications of that new designation.  Bookface is doing it too.

[txradioguy]

Doesn't this new feature amount to Twitter becoming a content provider on Twitter?  As Marco Rubio pointed out, that makes them a "publisher" and it might be time to examine the ramifications of that new designation.  Bookface is doing it too.

You are correct.

And because they chose such a prominent target as their first "fact check" it will also go down as the biggest "own goal" yet in the history of Twitter.

[txradioguy]

I consider Mika and Joe minor players, when you have a POS like Colbert reaching 100X the size audience spewing his vile lies and slander.   That's the mofo that needs muzzling.

I could get better ratings doing a morning politics show on YouTube than Mr and Mrs Scarbrough get in MSNBC

[Cyber Liberty]

You are correct.

And because they chose such a prominent target as their first "fact check" it will also go down as the biggest "own goal" yet in the history of Twitter.

Twitter just crossed a Rubric, whether they realized it or not.

[txradioguy]

Twitter just crossed a Rubric, whether they realized it or not.

I honestly think they know and they don't care.

[Cyber Liberty]

I honestly think they know and they don't care.

They think, perhaps correctly, that the gummint will do nothing to stop them, because the gummint supports what they're up to.