Twitter slapped a warning label on one of President Trump’s tweets for the first time on Tuesday, cautioning readers that despite the president’s claims, “fact checkers” say there is “no evidence” that mail-in voting would increase fraud risks — and that “experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.”
Within minutes, Trump accused Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election … based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post.” The president added that the platform “is completely stifling FREE SPEECH” and vowed: “I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”
The warning label prompted conservatives to again condemn Twitter for what they have called its apparent left-wing bias: Just two months ago, Twitter flagged a video uploaded by the Trump campaign as “manipulated media,” only to rebuff the campaign’s efforts to have the platform flag a similar video uploaded by the Biden team.
….Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
“We always knew that Silicon Valley would pull out all the stops to obstruct and interfere with President Trump getting his message through to voters,” Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. “Partnering with the biased fake news media ‘fact checkers’ is only a smoke screen Twitter is using to try to lend their obvious political tactics some false credibility. There are many reasons the Trump campaign pulled all our advertising from Twitter months ago, and their clear political bias is one of them.“
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“fact checkers” say there is “no evidence” that mail-in voting would increase fraud risks — and that “experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.”
These “fact checkers” and “experts” have their heads up their posteriors. Absentee voting has been notorious for decades for the rampant fraud it invites. Only an idiot or someone deliberately trying to avoid seeing the nose in front of his face could imagine that with a door so wide open to fraud nobody has been taking advantage of it. Ecology teaches us that if there is a niche something will fill it. The law says that it’s illegal to leave a car on the street with the door open and the keys in the ignition because it’s begging to be stolen. And the gemara says Lav Achbera Ganav Ela Chora Ganav. So how can these “experts” pretend it’s not happening and is unlikely to happen?
Just two months ago, Twitter flagged a video uploaded by the Trump campaign as “manipulated media,” only to rebuff the campaign’s efforts to have the platform flag a similar video uploaded by the Biden team.
In that case Twitter was right. The video that the Trump campaign uploaded was dishonestly edited. The Biden video was equally dishonest, but it was posted before Twitter announced its new policy; had it been uploaded after that date it would have got the same treatment.
The fact check was laughable. Trump says there is a good chance there will be fraud. So they quote cnn and Washington post 2 of trumps biggest enemies and say fraud has never been linked. And they call that a fact check. It’s not even fake news it’s sheer stupidity and that’s complimentary