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Fact checking doesn't imply picking sides. Not fact checking does.

>>rootlo+(OP)
Maybe a statement that we can all agree on would be: _selectively_ fact checking implies picking sides?

I think it's a point of contention (colored by existing political views) as to whether or not Twitter is selectively fact checking here.

Hopefully this isn't too controversial, there's a lot of hostility already in this thread, and I don't want to contribute to it.

>>rootlo+(OP)
> Fact checking doesn't imply picking sides. Not fact checking does.

Fact checking with partisan media sources does imply picking sides.

>>rootlo+(OP)
it sort of does, WHO they use to check the facts can very def define what side they're on.

>>senect+x4
or perhaps you use it against the most egregious offences by users with a high number of followers. not much point fact checking my tweets because at worst I could misinform 6 people, perhaps if it was retweeted a lot it would then be fact checked. Trump's verbal/typed diarrhea gets everywhere.

>>nabara+u3
There has to be a line somewhere, otherwise the implication is that nobody can be held correct by fact checking. Snopes and Politifact do a pretty good job, IMO. I think this just touches on the fact that the GOP and Trumpists in general are more likely to engage in distorting the truth or outright fabricating lies.

>>rootlo+(OP)
Can you explain how not fact checking implies picking a side?

>>acid__+G
Selectively fact checking things that are arguably opinions rather than factual claims in the first place, using flimsy evidence, whilst leaving actual factual misinformation to spread is definitely picking sides.

>>xpaqui+mc
No fact check = implicit trust

>>rootlo+ff
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.