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Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time

Grand Mal said:
We'll see if the courts agree with you. I think we can be pretty sure the A-G's office will be looking into it.
What's to stop Twitter from cancelling Trumps account if it looks like It's too much of a legal pain in the butt for them?
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His audience. Trump increased the attention and importance of Twitter exponentially during his campaign. That's why they won't delete his Tweets. They're trying to satisfy their outspoken liberal users without killing the golden goose.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time

Trump had made false statements about the threat of voter fraud posed by the expansion of mail-in voting in California.

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After telling 18,000+ lies and pushing innumerable conspiracy theories since the 2017 inauguration, it's high time Trump was held accountable for his media disinformation. He's every bit as bad as the Russians.

Related: Twitter has started fact-checking Trump's tweets
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This should have started with Spicy’s “largest crowd ever!”, for the Inauguration.
 
Ikari said:
Pretty much, he's just running his mouth. Trump is a huge baby, can't take the blows to his ego. But there's nothing he can do about it, other than bitch and moan. Which turns out to be what he's best at.
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Rusty snowflake.

The rustiest, most snowflakey snowflake ever!

Lots of people are saying it, so it must be true, right?
 
GhostlyJoe said:
And? If Trump had said this over the phone, should ATT&T censor it? Should Comcast?
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Over the phone is not publicly made. You do understand the difference, right?

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roguenuke said:
Over the phone is not publicly made. You do understand the difference, right?

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Which is why I mentioned Comcast. You do use an Internet connection to make these pronouncements.

But the legal principle is the same, regardless of the nature of the platform.
 
Superfly said:
I will say that people are treated differently on Twitter but not in the way that he thinks.

He can call Joe Scarborough a murderer, or Hillary Clinton a skank, and get away with it. I can tell Geraldo that he is a washed-up has-been, and I get put in Twitter jail.
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Once he is out of office, that probably will change.
 
chuckiechan said:
Although Trump should not have done it, it does prepare the field for a “Discussion about the cost of baseless accusations”.
The attempted coup on Trump. FBI entrapment, baseless charges leveled at Kavenaugh, etc. I’ll stop here.

Scarborough is getting a taste of the garbage his station puts out, and he is getting a taste in real human terms. Scarborough and is wife are probably munching on toast worrying with his wife that “If they re open and push this and make us a victim of state power, we will be as bankrupt as Gen. Flynn! This is only supposed to happen to them, not us!”
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Those whines are conspiracy level madness. Do stop there, because it doesn't make you look good
 
GhostlyJoe said:
Which is why I mentioned Comcast. You do use an Internet connection to make these pronouncements.

But the legal principle is the same, regardless of the nature of the platform.
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Your internet communications are still Private unless a) someone illegally hacks them, or b) you release the info.

The legal principle is not completely the same. For one thing, they aren't censoring him. They are requesting readers to fact check the information being put out. He is still free to post it.

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chuckiechan said:
Although Trump should not have done it, it does prepare the field for a “Discussion about the cost of baseless accusations”.
The attempted coup on Trump. FBI entrapment, baseless charges leveled at Kavenaugh, etc. I’ll stop here.

Scarborough is getting a taste of the garbage his station puts out, and he is getting a taste in real human terms. Scarborough and is wife are probably munching on toast worrying with his wife that “If they re open and push this and make us a victim of state power, we will be as bankrupt as Gen. Flynn! This is only supposed to happen to them, not us!”
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Scarborough and the others you attack are fine, but it shows Trump to be insane.

What does Timothy J. Klausutis and his friends and family get out of it?
 
roguenuke said:
Your internet communications are still Private unless a) someone illegally hacks them, or b) you release the info.

The legal principle is not completely the same. For one thing, they aren't censoring him. They are requesting readers to fact check the information being put out. He is still free to post it.

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These whines about censorship have only appeared since Twitter started to factcheck him. For years, he has been allowed to run rampant, trashing the rules which rigorously apply to every other Twitter user but him. Even so, any other user making these vile mendacious claims would be shut down completely.
 
j brown's body said:
Scarborough and the others you attack are fine, but it shows Trump to be insane.

What does Timothy J. Klausutis and his friends and family get out of it?
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I personally thing such rhetoric as 'aatempted coup and 'FBI entrapment' to be quite amusing, and shows how effective the gas-lighting of this administration is.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Scarborough needn't wait to sue. Libel law applies to the POTUS.
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The President has absolute authority, is immune from prosecution, and can adjourn Congress.
 
RAMOSS said:
Those whines are conspiracy level madness. Do stop there, because it doesn't make you look good
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Yet you celebrate the dual system of reporting. Scarborough is a creature of the hostile media and I have zero sympathy that he was accused of murder when I seriously doubt he had anything to do with it. It's not my problem, and it's not yours. It's state power that might gobble up one of your media darlings that bothers you.

You appear to expect special treatment for those on your side. Poor Joe Scarborough my ass. I hope the FBI opens it up just to destroy him financially, then cut him loose like they did to those in Trump's orbit. He can go back on CNN and cry that he was treated like Gen Flynn and Kavenaugh. "They just big footed me for no reason! Waaaa!" You want crooked (assuming they re open the case) You got it, Toyota!

You should be on my side and take a stand against what the democrats did to Trump, AKA, Obamagate, because that is what crooked state power does to it's victims.

I don't care that one of yours gets knifed. He's as fair game as Kavenaugh, Flynn, and Stone.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Nixon wished that were true.
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Nixon just didn't understand how to use his Presidential power. If he were a stable genius, he'd been able to exercise his power better and escape punishment by Congress.
 
j brown's body said:
Scarborough and the others you attack are fine, but it shows Trump to be insane.

What does Timothy J. Klausutis and his friends and family get out of it?
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The same thing Flynn's, Stone's, and Kavenaugh's. A plaque on the wall with a big footprint labeled "I was big footed by a corrupt FBI".
 
chuckiechan said:
Yet you celebrate the dual system of reporting. Scarborough is a creature of the hostile media and I have zero sympathy that he was accused of murder when I seriously doubt he had anything to do with it. It's not my problem, and it's not yours. It's state power that might gobble up one of your media darlings that bothers you.

You appear to expect special treatment for those on your side. Poor Joe Scarborough my ass. I hope the FBI opens it up just to destroy him financially, then cut him loose like they did to those in Trump's orbit. He can go back on CNN and cry that he was treated like Gen Flynn and Kavenaugh. "They just big footed me for no reason! Waaaa!" You want crooked (assuming they re open the case) You got it, Toyota!

You should be on my side and take a stand against what the democrats did to Trump, AKA, Obamagate, because that is what crooked state power does to it's victims.

I don't care that one of yours gets knifed. He's as fair game as Kavenaugh, Flynn, and Stone.
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Ah, more conspiracy partisan ranting. Ok. Gotcha. You really should stop bringing up debunked conspiracy theories.
 
chuckiechan said:
Yet you celebrate the dual system of reporting. Scarborough is a creature of the hostile media and I have zero sympathy that he was accused of murder when I seriously doubt he had anything to do with it. It's not my problem, and it's not yours. It's state power that might gobble up one of your media darlings that bothers you.

You appear to expect special treatment for those on your side. Poor Joe Scarborough my ass. I hope the FBI opens it up just to destroy him financially, then cut him loose like they did to those in Trump's orbit. He can go back on CNN and cry that he was treated like Gen Flynn and Kavenaugh. "They just big footed me for no reason! Waaaa!" You want crooked (assuming they re open the case) You got it, Toyota!

You should be on my side and take a stand against what the democrats did to Trump, AKA, Obamagate, because that is what crooked state power does to it's victims.

I don't care that one of yours gets knifed. He's as fair game as Kavenaugh, Flynn, and Stone.
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What kinda fascist opinion is this?

The USA has a free press. Take your unAmerican **** back to Putin. Accusing a perceived "enemy" of a murder he didn't commit is a tin-pot dictator move. Celebrating it is very CCP of you.
 
Jean-s said:
Twitter is pretty hands off when it comes to Donald Trump's lies. It is an utterly discredited platform. It goes without saying that I do not have an account there.
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Neither do I, never did, facebook either.....don't need an account to follow this Trump insanity, it's all over the news when he spews hateful attacks and dangerous disinformation.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
They are?
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Yes. The coroner's investigation found that Lori Klausutis had an undiagnosed heart condition and fell and hit her head at work.

Joe Scarborough didn't murder Lori. That's 100% Trump conspiracy.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Yes. The coroner's investigation found that Lori Klausutis had an undiagnosed heart condition and fell and hit her head at work.

Joe Scarborough didn't murder Lori. That's 100% Trump conspiracy.
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OK. Defending his tweets or the validity of his accusation's was never may point. Twitter's decision to be the arbiter of facts puts the lie to the notion that the business deserves liability protection.
 
Superfly said:
That’s why he’s yammering this morning about shutting social media down.

What a baby.
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I'm hearing he has a new platform in the works, calling it Clowncar ® (all one word) where the application is just clowns coming out of small cars with signs that have text/images on them.
I hear you can have as many false character assassinations as you like, no limits.
 
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