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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
I don't really care about the story, but Twitter/FB playing editor is a problem. If they have some sort of standard, I'd like to see it enforced when the entirety of the main stream media used Twitter to defame a 16 year old kid with unsubstantiated reporting based on lies, or allowing the Smollet hoax to go unchecked, among hundreds of other hoaxes perpetrated/propagated by lefty journalists.
Trump has spewed some 25000 lies, amplified by social media to give him the biggest reach of any politician in human history, many of them delusions about political opponents or the most insane of conspiracy theories.
Social media reach being defined by reads, likes and follows it also made him largely immune to being countered by sanity or facts. Combined this gave a political punch that was the key ingredient in elevating him to the presidency of the United States of America. And your concern is voiced when an obvious political hatchet job by Trump affiliates in a 2nd-rate newspaper is branded as "misleading", forcing users to click an extra time to read it?
If there was any fairness in the social media world, Trump's accounts should all have been banned years ago. There isn't a mainstream social media TOS that man should reasonably have made it past.
Biden is a polite man running a fairly polite campaign. Politeness doesn't sell as well as Trump's vitriolic garbage. It's good to see some moderation from these companies for once, but it is far too little far too late.