Friday, May 29, 2020

OPINION_ Twitter needs to fact-check these tweets from prominent liberals

NEW YORK POST

OPINION

Twitter needs to fact-check these tweets from prominent liberals

By Sohrab Ahmari

May 28, 2020 | 9:52pm | Updated



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This week, for the first time, Twitter “fact-checked” one of President Trump’s opinions and redirected users to coverage from that paragon of fairness and objectivity, CNN (don’t laugh).

Twitter announced the introduction of the new feature earlier this month. The goal, two workers wrote, is to “make it easy to find credible information” and to stanch the flow of “misleading content.”

But I wonder: Will the platform also append “fact-check” labels and links to tweets from prominent liberals that also turned out to be “misleading” or outright false?

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/twitter-should-also-fact-check-tweets-from-prominent-liberals/

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Harvard law professor and #Resistance icon Laurence Tribe
in December 2017 asked his followers to “retweet if, like me, you’re aware of nothing in the Christopher Steele dossier that has been shown to be false.” Nearly 8,000 did retweet, despite the fact that the dossier has been thoroughly debunked.


Finally, on a local note: Surely, if a tweet should come with a health hazard, it was city Councilman Mark Levine’s February invitation to Gothamites to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Chinatown “in defiance of the coronavirus”: “If you are staying away, you are missing out!”


Sohrab Ahmari is The Post’s op-ed editor.

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So, WHO are "professors"
"MARKed" in "ZUCK" for what to be called "fact-check"?

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