The Twitter official responsible for the platform’s fact-checking policy has tweeted that members of the Trump administration are “Nazis,” among other false and inflammatory statements on the platform.
Yoel Roth, whose official job title is “Head of Site Integrity,” explained the platform’s new policy in a May 11 blog post on “misleading information” on coronavirus.
“In serving the public conversation, our goal is to make it easy to find credible information on Twitter and to limit the spread of potentially harmful and misleading content,” he said.
Twitter appears to have applied that policy to a broader category of assertions, moving beyond COVID-19 to President Donald Trump’s claim on Tuesday that vote-by-mail would lead to more voter fraud — a prediction with which even some Democrats have agreed.
Subsequently, Twitter slapped a “get the facts” label on Trump’s tweets about voter fraud — and provided links to CNN and the Washington Post, two avowedly anti-Trump outlets that enthusiastically pushed the Russia collusion hoax.
….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
Critics on Twitter, ironically, pointed out that Roth’s own tweets include exactly the kind of misleading and abusive content that Twitter’s policy purports to limit.
"Every time a cute boy uses an Android phone, I die inside" is the new "Every time a cute boy tells me he's a Republican, I die inside."
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) December 3, 2011
https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/796186371408789505
“Today on Meet The Press, we’re speaking with Joseph Goebbels about the first 100 days…” —What I hear whenever Kellyanne is on a news show
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) January 22, 2017
How does a personality-free bag of farts like Mitch McConnell actually win elections?
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) July 28, 2017
Yes, that person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) January 22, 2017
Roth has also defended his use of the homophobic slur “fag” on the Twitter platform:
And I’m sure his next fact-check assignment will be to correct all those liars who claimed on Twitter that President Trump said ALL the people at Charlotteville were very fine as opposed to his condemnation of the white supremacists there.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Twitter Google and facebook CEOs are China puppets they have turned the internet into a cesspool. While pedos and terrorist tweet with impunity normal people are banned.
There is NO credible evidence of wide-spread voter fraud, despite exhaustive efforts to find it. There have only been specific instances, of such low frequency that they have no statistical significance whatsoever on national elections.
There is NO credible evidence that mail-in ballots or early voting promotes voter fraud.
The Trump administration’s own voting integrity commission, given the dedicated task of finding and exposing evidence of widespread voter fraud, found absolutely NO evidence that any such thing has occurred.
The posts in question were complete b.s. It’s about time Twitter reacted. They had every right to do so. They had a public responsibility to do so.
Here’s a theory: The GOP is fighting mail-in ballots with the intention of reducing democratic voter turnout owing to COVID-19 pandemic concerns, knowing that their own base is more likely to disregard them. They’ve already turned refusal to wear masks or to avoid crowded settings into acts of political defiance.
@Greg
I thought Trump lies?
The Trump administration’s own voting integrity commission, given the dedicated task of finding and exposing evidence of widespread voter fraud, found absolutely NO evidence that any such thing has occurred.
See you do believe Trump after all!
@Greg:
OK, so you’re OK with voter fraud as long as it is not “wide-spread” and has no effect on national elections. But it’s OK if it affects a Congressional election, a state rep election or local elected officials, right? Sorry, dumass, for every fraudulent ballot case (usually by absentee ballots) a legitimate voter was disenfranchised. Thought your party was the one that supported disenfranchised voters. Guess not.
Actually, there is. It is called “vote mining.”
Fear of the Chi-Com virus is no excuse for demanding an absentee ballot. Unless you’re willing to prove, in November, that you have not left your house since March.
Here’s another theory: the Democrats did not achieve their voter fraud numberss with the Motor Voter Act so they want to make sure that absentee ballots can be mined with greater frequency. Since voter fraud is usually a Class C misdemeanor, many DA offices don’t have the funds, or man power, to go after the criminals who commit voter fraud because of the cost and the light sentences applied when found guilty. Make voter fraud a mandatory 5 year sentence and watch it go away.
Please don’t make me mad Twitter i am a very unpleasent Shorebird when i am mad
@retire05, #5:
Voter fraud is against federal law. You can be imprisoned for up to five years if found guilty of voter fraud. That would suggest that we don’t think its OK.
How people feel about the crime isn’t the issue here. The issue here is whether millions of people should be required to potentially endanger themselves and others in order to exercise a citizen’s right and duty to vote, when there’s not a damn bit of credible evidence that voter fraud occurs often enough to have any effect whatsoever on presidential elections.
I don’t support draconian solutions to imaginary problems.
@Greg:
Yet you support it.
However, what are your thoughts of having an avowed lying, biased liberal scumbag act as an arbiter of facts and truth on Twitter?
@Deplorable Me, #8:
Donald Trump is not a liberal. Which is not to say that he’s a conservative, either. He’s an opportunist who consistently supports the principles of neither.
@Greg: So, what about the liberal scumbag doing the “fact checking”? Is this yet another simple question you shall run away from?