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>>danso+(OP)
The neutral companies, such as utilities, online hosting or financial providers serve nearly everyone with little objections - they defer to the law rather than any internal policies. The more selective companies such as newspapers and TV channels are expected to restrict who can get published.

By representing itself both as an open platform and as a company with progressive values, Twitter has put itself into an awkward in-between spot and is bound to create such controversies.

>>lykahb+T21
Fact-checking obvious lies is a "progressive value"? Wow, that really shows how bad things have gotten.

>>Quercu+F61
Very few statements are entirely true or entirely false. So let's not pretend like "fact-checking" is an ideal.

Whoever is doing the "fact-checking" wields great power that can very easily be abused or subverted, similar to the ministry of truth in 1984. This is what people are concerned about.

And while that is clearly an extreme, even a small bias in the fact-check is greatly amplified given the number of users on Twitter/Facebook/etc.