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>>danso+(OP)
I said it yesterday and got downvotes, Twitter’s CEO decided to pick sides in the political battle so they should expect what’s coming to them.

>>pagane+D1
Fact checking doesn't imply picking sides. Not fact checking does.

>>rootlo+02
Can you explain how not fact checking implies picking a side?

>>xpaqui+me
No fact check = implicit trust

>>rootlo+fh
Not fact checking is only picking a side once you have decided to fact check. Before all of this twitter could claim to be a medium of communication. There isn't implicit trust that something is true because it is written on paper, posted on a billboard, or appears on TV. By choosing to mark tweets as true or false, they are no longer just a medium of communication. We can now imply that if twitter does not mark a tweet as false, they are endorsing that tweet as true.