posted May 28, 2020 02:26 PM            

The background for those who live in the caves:

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Twitter hides Trump post for ‘glorifying violence’

Twitter accused Donald Trump of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence” after the president tweeted about days of unrest in Minneapolis.
The fresh row between the president and Twitter came just hours after after Mr Trump ordered a wide-ranging review of the law that underpins how social media platforms operate.
The executive order instructs White House officials to re-examine the 1996 law that granted social media companies immunity from being sued for content which appeared on their platforms, or for removing content.
“Currently, social media giants like Twitter receive an unprecedented liability shield based on the theory that they’re a neutral platform, which they’re not,” Mr Trump said.
The issuing of the executive order follows the decision by Twitter earlier this week to place a fact-check warning on some of the president’s tweets for the first time. The late-night decision on Thursday to hide the president’s Minneapolis tweet goes further still and will infuriate the president.
The post by Mr Trump was a response to days of violence in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, which has erupted following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year old African American man, in police custody.
“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd,” Mr Trump wrote of the demonstrators on Twitter. “I won’t let that happen.” He added: “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
The president’s message can now only be read after clicking on a notice which says: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.” (FT, NYT)

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Entire west coast of USA is part of AI driven perhaps controlled. East coast is about governance. I personally feel AI should lose. Arnold as terminator (future AI) should lose lol. He looks pretty just as Lucifer is also pretty, but we don't wanna lose in his charms.

Such rifts will split the country in to 2 as some predicts. Keep this in back of your minds as you follow the globalists controlled media.

posted May 28, 2020 05:00 PM            

3 for facebook

posted May 28, 2020 06:18 PM            

Run away from Arti as fast as you can.
This is how they begin, will tell you more when the right time comes.

I can't believe it-- LL witches are not as bright

posted May 28, 2020 06:30 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
Right teasel. Fact checking is a very important issue in social media where they run their mouths and expect others to believe the crap spewed.... especially you know who

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Thanks, Juni. Unfortunately, Zuckerberg is on trump's side, and they removed an anti-trump ad from the site. I think he's hoping that trump will bring the posts and traffic to FB.

posted May 28, 2020 06:31 PM            

And who decides what the facts are when the scientists do NOT agree on many so called scientific facts?

That being said, I am not sure that Trump executive order (which I have not read) can legally bind the medias because they are business companies and ultimately they can run their companies the way they please and set the rules. Right wing newspapers cannot be forced to publish left leaning pieces and vice versa.

posted May 28, 2020 06:33 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage:
How about people doing their own fact checks before accepting as fact something they see on Twitter or Facebook? You can't legislate common sense and due diligence. People who are using these medias as their source of information seem to lack both.

And who decides what the facts are when the scientists do NOT agree on many so called scientific facts?

That being said, I am not sure that Trump executive order (which I have not read) can legally bind the medias because they are business companies and ultimately they can run their companies the way they please and set the rules. Right wing newspapers cannot be forced to publish left leaning pieces and vice versa.

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posted May 28, 2020 06:33 PM            

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Originally posted by PhoenixRising:

I can't believe it-- LL witches are not as bright

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posted May 28, 2020 06:50 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I fact check on my own. I refuse to do Zuckerberg's job for him.

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posted May 28, 2020 06:54 PM            

Twitter Revises “Fact Check” of Trump Because They Were Wrong
Matt Palumbo
May 28, 2020

posted May 28, 2020 07:21 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by teasel:
[b]I am confused by your statement. What is Zuckerberg's job that you are refusing to do for him?

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posted May 28, 2020 07:22 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
Bongino, now theres an biased unsuccessful wannabe congressman.
No horse in that race, right 😉

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posted May 28, 2020 07:48 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
He wants users to fact-check certain links that are presented in the feed, and then decide whether or not they are correct. I'm not doing that for him. It was presented that way to me, a few times.

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But you said you are fact-checking.. You are indeed doing that for him...

posted May 28, 2020 07:53 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage:
But you said you are fact-checking.. You are indeed doing that for him...

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posted May 28, 2020 09:38 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
No, I'm not. He wanted people to hit a button and decide, after reading whatever was linked.

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posted May 28, 2020 11:25 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
Bongino, now theres an biased unsuccessful wannabe congressman.
No horse in that race, right 😉

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Well you could have read this story from numerous sources...including the Wall Street Journal...or this one. The story doesn't change depending on the source. Twitter screwed up..plain and simple and made a correction when their little leftist noses got rubbed in their errors.

Twitter Corrects Fact Check on Voting After It Gets Fact-checked
Joel B. Pollak
28 May 2020

Twitter corrected the notice that it appended to tweets by President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal pointed out that the fact check, itself, was factually inaccurate.

After Trump tweeted criticism of California Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to send mail-in ballot applications to every registered voter in the state, Twitter added a fact check label that read: Get the facts about mail-in ballots.

...living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

Twitter's fact-checking link pointed users to articles by CNN and the Washington Post two outlets notorious for their opposition to the Trump administration.

However, the Wall Street Journal noted:

Twitter's fact check of Mr. Trump's tweet appeared to contain its own misleading statement, however, stating that mail-in ballots are already used in some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nebraska. That statement appears to conflate automatic all-mail voting with absentee ballots in regards to at least one state.

While all states allow absentee voting via the mail, only a handful of states including Oregon and Utah automatically send registered voters mail-in ballots. Nebraska, in contrast, recently mailed applications to every voter in response to the pandemic, and the state didn't automatically send ballots.

The mistake raised questions about Twitter's ability to serve as an independent service to fact check statements by Mr. Trump or other political figures on its service. Late Tuesday, Twitter updated its language to remove reference to Nebraska and instead stated that five states already vote entirely by mail and all states offer some form of mail-in absentee voting.

The Journal noted in an update: Late Tuesday Twitter updated its language in a fact-check of President Trump's tweet. The Journal's Dustin Volz tweeted: It was corrected after an elections professional notified the company (and me) about the mistake.....

http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/28/twitter-corrects-fa ct-check-on-voting-after-it-gets-fact-checked/

posted May 28, 2020 11:38 PM            

Twitter: No Warning on Misleading Viral Photo of Minneapolis Cop at Trump Rally
Nate Church
28 May 2020

Minneapolis Police Union President Lt. Bob Kroll confirmed on Wednesday that Derek Chauvin — the officer caught on tape resting his full weight on Minnesota man George Floyd’s neck shortly before he died — was not on stage at an October campaign rally held by President Donald Trump.

Despite Twitter’s new approach to “fact-checking” their content, false claims that Chauvin was on stage at a Trump rally went viral and have not been moderated by the platform at the time of this writing. Minneapolis Police Union President Lieutenant Bob Kroll verified that the officer pictured was not Chauvin.

Twitter has, and continues to, allow the content to circulate its platform — even by verified users. Despite their new commitment to verifying information, there is no “get the facts” link on the tweets, as has been famously applied to President Donald Trump. They were significantly slower to do the same to China........

http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/28/twitter-no-warning-on-misleading-viral-photo-of-minneapolis-cop-at-trump-rally/

posted May 28, 2020 11:49 PM            

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday in the White House to defend free speech on social media and regulate social media companies for selectively censoring users.

We're here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers, the president said, referring to the unchecked power wielded by social media companies in the United States.

The president signed the order in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon.

They've had unchecked power to censor restrict, edit shape hide alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences, Trump said.

The president criticized the growing monopoly of social media companies in America, vowing to act to change the regulatory framework for the companies.

There's no precedent in American history for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of interaction, he said.

Trump said the increasing editorial actions by social media to control the content on their platforms endangered their liability shield under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a neutral public platform.

The choices that Twitter makes, when it chooses to suppress, edit, blacklist, shadowban are editorial decisions, pure and simple, they are editorial decisions, Trump said.

The president accused the companies of political activism, calling it inappropriate.

What they choose to fact check and what they choose to ignore or promote is nothing more than a political activism group, he said.

Trump said that social media companies had more power and more reach than any phone company or newspaper or media outlet, (which are all regulated) and needed more regulation.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr attended the event and said his office would prepare legislation to restrict social media companies from pressing their particular viewpoints on their platforms.

These companies grew because they held themselves out as public forums, Barr said, adding, Now that they've become these very powerful networks of eyeballs. They've now switched and they are using that market power to force particular viewpoints.

The president also noted that checking social media companies had become a bipartisan issue, citing Democrat support for regulation.

When ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked why President Trump did not delete his Twitter account in protest of the company's decisions, Trump replied, If you weren't fake, I would not even think about it, I would do that in a heartbeat.

posted May 29, 2020 12:01 AM            

Twitter on Tuesday began fact-checking President Trump's tweets but let elected representatives of the U.S. Congress claim that the president's campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 elections for three years.

Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter, said Wednesday evening that the company's intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves.

However, for three years, throughout 2017, 2018, and 2019 Democrat members of Congress stated as fact on Twitter that they had evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, which fueled the leftist narrative that the election was illegitimate.

Their claims were in dispute by other members of Congress, as well as members of the Trump administration and the president, but Twitter never flagged them as such, as it did with Trump's recent tweets.....

posted May 29, 2020 12:12 AM            

Based on the draft, here is a summary of the order’s key provisions:

•It redefines official U.S. policy towards social media platforms, stating “it is the policy of the United States that large social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, as the functional equivalent of a traditional public forum, should not infringe on protected speech.”

•Citing Packingham v. North Carolina, the executive order describes social media platforms as the “modern public square.”

•“Communication through these channels has become important for meaningful participation in American democracy, including to petition elected leaders.”

•The head of every executive department and agency is instructed to review its agency’s federal spending and advertising and marketing on online platforms, and will be prohibited from advertising on platforms that violate free speech principles.

•The Secretary of Commerce, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, will petition the FCC to propose regulations that clarify the provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, specifically the provision that gives tech platforms immunity for “good faith” efforts to filter or remove content that is “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.”

•The order asks the FCC to define actions from tech companies that are considered to be “deceptive, pretextual, or inconsistent with a provider’s terms of service” and actions that are the result of “inadequate notice, the product of unseasoned explanation, or having been undertak[en] without a meaningful opportunity to be heard” as outside the bounds of “good faith.”

•The White House Office of Digital Strategy will reestablish a tool previously used by the administration to allow American citizens to report cases of tech bias to the federal government. These complaints will be directed to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the latter of which will be asked to investigate them as potential cases of deceptive business practices.

•The Attorney General is directed to establish a working group regarding the enforcement of State law that prohibits companies from engaging in “unfair and deceptive acts and practices.” State AGs will be invited to participate.

posted May 29, 2020 06:22 PM            

Social media giant Twitter has made efforts recently to ramp up its censorship practices, “fact-checking” a recent tweet from President Donald Trump and later tagging another tweet for “glorifying violence.” Breitbart News reported on this recently, writing:

The President then sent a follow-up tweet, saying: “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen.”

He added that he had spoken to Governor Tim Walz and “told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”

Twitter, however, took the remarkable step of hiding the President’s second tweet, covering it with a public notice appearing on the platform alleging it had “violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.”

The tweet was not deleted outright, however, with the tech giant adding that it had “determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible” to users electing to click a “View” button.

But within the same 24 hours that the president’s tweet was tagged with the “glorifying violence” tag, vVerified Twitter user and rapper Key Nyata, suggested that another user deserved to be shot. Nyata’s Facebook page lists him as a musician and he boasts a follower count of over 16,000 on Twitter.

Nyata quoted a tweet from journalist Cassandra Fairbanks who stated: “Judging by what has been allowed to take place in Minneapolis, maybe we need more oppression.” Nyata commented on the quoted tweet: “Judging by this tweet, maybe you need a bullet in the back of your skull.”

The tweet can be seen below and an archived version can be found here:

Judging by this tweet, maybe you need a bullet in the back of your skull 🏾‍♂️ https://t.co/V8odQkNukO

— CYANIDE SYNDICATE (@KeyNyata) May 29, 2020

Twitter defended its decision to tag the President’s tweets for “glorifying violence” in a reply to the President’s account, stating: “We’ve taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the Tweet given its relevance to ongoing matters of public importance.”
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) May 29, 2020

Yet it appears a verified user suggesting another user should be shot does not fall under the same guidelines. Breitbart News has reached out to Twitter about the quoted tweets but has yet to receive a response at the time of the writing of this article.