(05-30-2020, 12:16 PM)Last42min Wrote:

(05-30-2020, 08:44 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: By saying other questionable tweets by public figures should receive the same scrutiny as Trump's, what exactly have I "validated?"

Questionable is subjective, and this is the entire problem. I could see this working if every tweet for public figures was fact checked, but the problem then becomes fact checker biases. I do think these things could be solved, but it takes cooperation, and we are not living in cooperative times. Maybe heterodox academy could fact check?

Since I believe you stated you aren't on Twitter I just wanted to explain this again. 

Twitter did not fact check any tweets.  They are not fact checking anyone's tweets. 
Twitter merely added a link below the tweet that said "get the facts on this topic" 
Clicking that link brought you to articles from 8-10 different independent news outlets' published stories on the topic (in this case mail-in ballots.)  
This process didn't introduce any "fact-checker" bias as simply it linked various independent articles.

You can argue a bias may occur when certain tweets are fitted with such links to articles, and others are not, but we can't say twitter is being biased with their fact checking.

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