Alright so I just talked to a Twitter rep about Kathy Griffin encouraging someone to kill @realDonaldTrump, Twitter deciding to fact check Trump’s tweets and their head of site integrity. Here’s a thread on how that conversation went...
Twitter determined Kathy Griffin did NOT break the terms of service with this tweet where she encourages someone to kill @realDonaldTrump. They won’t take action because "she’s not telling people to go do it."
They said this despite the fact she‘s clearly advocating for it.
They said this despite the fact she‘s clearly advocating for it.
I discussed the so called "fact check" @Twitter added to @realDonaldTrump’s tweets. I told the rep from Twitter that unless they have a plan to fact check China, Iran and Biden, this is clearly election interference. The fact check wasn’t even factual.
The Twitter rep told me that Twitter is taking the position that it will only use a fact check in regards that they deem "incorrect" about "how people can vote".
My take: If you can’t see how dangerous that is, you aren’t thinking hard enough or creatively enough.
My take: If you can’t see how dangerous that is, you aren’t thinking hard enough or creatively enough.
I asked the rep if the head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, made any of these decisions. I asked this because he‘s been openly anti-Trump. The Twitter rep told me that Yoel did not make the decisions. In these cases Yoel’s bosses did. They didn’t elaborate on who those bosses are.
I’m more convinced than ever that these companies need to be regulated. Their decisions are political + they test crossing a line that keeps moving but this time with the so called "fact check", I think they finally crossed it far enough to get regulated and it’s their own fault.
