President Trump’s executive order against the social media avenue that Trump uses and Facebook and google seems to have no effect against Trump efforts to offer misleading and down right lie’s on social media…
In fact?
Twitter has expanded it’s warning to it user’s about Trump Alternate Reality comments…
The ‘fact checking will continue’ as it has in media like The Washington Post and others….
Twitter on Thursday added new fact-checking labels to hundreds of tweets, even as the Trump administration prepared an executive order to curtail the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content posted on their platforms.
Twitter’s move escalated the confrontation between the company and President Trump, who has fulminated this week over actions taken by his favorite social media service.
Twitter on Tuesday had appended fact-checking labels for the first time to two of Mr. Trump’s tweets about mail-in ballots, refuting their accuracy. In response, Mr. Trump accused Twitter of stifling speech and declared that he would put a stop to the interference.
Since then, White House officials have drafted an executive order that would make it easier for federal regulators to argue that companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are suppressing free speech when they move to suspend users or delete posts. The executive order may come as early as Thursday.
Yet even with the executive order expected, Twitter doubled down and continued its fact-checking effort. Early Thursday, it added fact-checking labels to messages from Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry who had claimed that the coronavirus outbreak may have begun in the United States and been brought to China by the U.S. military.
Twitter also added notices on hundreds of tweets that falsely claimed a photo of a man in a red baseball cap was Derek Chauvin, an officer involved in the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died this week after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by police. The Twitter label alerted viewers that the image was “manipulated media.”
Note…
The fact checking labels are NOT just aimed at Trump…They are appearing on other tweets…
Bloomberg Radio had a great guest on earlier today about this…so many issues regarding free speech and private entities being responsible and not responsible for their print content…Internet versus traditional media…etc…right to Free Enterprise vs. Regulation…
The final statement made by the presenter I don’t know his name unfortunately, was that he said 40 years ago, with Raegan the Republican Party was the Standard Bearer for free enterprise and lack of government regulation, now their president when it suits him is wanting to censor social media…Not that we all here don’t already know the contradictions of the Trump Era, just another stark example of how the Party has truly sold its soul to the Devil which we call Trump…
Saddest thing is that Americans have such short attention spans, they will forgive and forget this era in 8 years, maybe less and the Republicans in the electorate will only pay a short term price for trump…see election 2018 and hopefully election 2020.
I do NOT see Trump as censoring the media….
I DO see him as wanting to be able to lie and shitcan people and get away with it…
It’s how he took over the GOP and beat Hillary….
Now he wants social media to allow him. to continue to do the SAME THING…
Censorship is him controlling the media…
He seems to NOT want THAT so far…
To be fair….
ALL President’s grow to hate the media…
Obama went after leakers so did Bush….
Trump’s problem is ‘Truth’….
He’s being called out for it and he doesn’t like it…
Anything he doesn’t like?
He attacks …..