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by Sohrab Ahmari
If Twitter is going to “fact check” the leader of the Free World, with a hard leftist as part of the team doing so, then it should be treated as the publisher that it is — with all the liabilities that entails.
On Tuesday, Twitter appended a fact-check label to a presidential tweet about the fraud risk associated with mail-in voting. The exclamation urged users to “get the facts about mail-in ballots.”
The link took users to a CNN story with the headline: “Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud.” It was the kind of opinion-masquerading-as-reportage that CNN, and too many other mainstream outlets, specialize in. “Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud,” the story tsk-tsk’d — the experts apparently having forgotten the debacle of thousands of lost, missing and uncounted mail-in ballots reported by The New York Times last month. Read the rest HERE.
Twitter made a HUGE mistake. They have now injected themselves into a US election and decided to become editorialists, rather than a platform. ALL platform protections should be immediately revoked and Twitter should be treated as a publisher. They did this to themselves.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) May 26, 2020
Conservatives have been censored for several years now by the the lefty techie sites. Apparently, Trump is only concerned about this when HE is censored. But wait, AG Candy Barr is going to leap into action one of these days concerning the Russia lawbreakers, the techie censors and the voter fraudsters. Yep, one of these days in the distant future. You betcha. I’ve about had it with this BS.