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‘Harmfully Misleading:’ Twitter Tests Warning Labels on World Leaders’ Tweets
Breitbart ^ | 21 Feb 2020 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 02/21/2020 9:40:04 AM PST by mairdie

The potential feature would see alleged disinformation posted by public figures on the platform corrected by fact-checker and journalists who have been verified on Twitter. ... Examples of how this system would work including badges attached to tweets from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and a tweet from author Anand Ranganathan.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; socialmedia; twitter; twittercensorship
And we trust that the number of orange flags will be 50-50 conservative/liberal because...
1 posted on 02/21/2020 9:40:04 AM PST by mairdie
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“...corrected by fact-checker and journalists who have been verified on Twitter. ...”

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh!

Next thing they’ll be telling us is that Biden has a measurable IQ.


2 posted on 02/21/2020 9:44:46 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Twitter: the filter of your thoughts, US Citizens got by without for over
200 years.

Whew, just in time... /s

3 posted on 02/21/2020 9:44:48 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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Censorship.

Unless and until our politicians step up and enforce the Constitution our freedoms (AND THEIRS) will be stripped away.

These monopolies need to be regulated.


4 posted on 02/21/2020 9:45:35 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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Warning: All mass media article are biased and hazardous to your mental health. Their goal is to brainwash you so you will obey the elites!

(That is the warning label I want to see....)


5 posted on 02/21/2020 9:45:46 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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“Joe Biden knows what he’s talking about” <— harmfully misleading


6 posted on 02/21/2020 9:46:14 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Here how the algorithm will work:

Is the tweet from a conservative or a liberal?
- If from a conservative, delete tweet.
- If from liberal, leave tweet alone.

Pretty simple, actually.


7 posted on 02/21/2020 9:48:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Eventually, GO0 elected leaders are going to have to leave Twitter en mass and go to Gab or some other conservative alternative. Question is whether they can handle the traffic.


8 posted on 02/21/2020 9:50:03 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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Censorship. Unless and until our politicians step up and enforce the Constitution our freedoms (AND THEIRS) will be stripped away. These monopolies need to be regulated.

Beat me to it. EXACTLY.

9 posted on 02/21/2020 9:58:46 AM PST by jstolzen
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Just in time for the election campaign. Obviously, everything Trump posts will be branded false, and anything the Chosen One says will be promoted.


10 posted on 02/21/2020 10:09:31 AM PST by I want the USA back (Journalists Take Bits of Reality and Slot them into the Existing Script. -Friedman.)
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Who will fact-check the fact-checkers?


11 posted on 02/21/2020 11:18:48 AM PST by microgeek42
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