(Liberty Bell) – For the first time, Twitter added a “fact-check” to a tweet from President Donald Trump about concerns that POTUS shares with many about the risk of fraud with mail-in voting.
It almost goes without saying, however, that they have not applied this standard to Trump’s prospective Democrat rival in the upcoming 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden, nor a host of other political opponents to the president who are apparently allowed to freely deceive the masses using their platform.
Also, as Breitbart notes:
Unlike Facebook, which gives itself plausible deniability for fact-checking bias by relying on “third party fact checkers” (almost all left-leaning) to pick and choose what to fact-check and what to ignore, Twitter made the decision to fact-check Trump’s tweet itself, linking to an official “moment” curated by Twitter employees and containing numerous articles from the mainstream media calling the president a liar.In a comment to Breitbart News, Twitter said there was no way for the President even to appeal the dubious “fact-check.”
Meanwhile, as the outlet goes on to detail, Twitter has let falsehoods slide from Democrats, Biden, and legacy media that has been freely circulating on the network without any fact-checking.
1. NOT FACT-CHECKED: Media outlets falsely claim that Trump went golfing on Memorial Day
Several members of legacy media claimed that President Trump was out golfing on the Memorial Day holiday.
It’s not hard to scrutinize this claim. As Breitbart explains, “Trump was indeed golfing this weekend, but on Memorial Day itself, he attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetary [sic] with Vice President Pence. Twitter nonetheless allowed this claim to go viral without any fact-checking labels applied to it, on the same day it fact-checked a perfectly valid concern from the President about voting fraud.”
Different approaches to Memorial Day:16.5K7:42 PM - May 25, 2020
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2. NOT FACT-CHECKED: Biden and other Democrats claim they called for shutdowns a week before POTUS
Biden regularly claims to be in the right about the coronavirus, and has falsely claimed that he called for a shutdown one week before President Trump did.
This is entirely baseless.
“There is no evidence that he made any statement of the sort — on the contrary, he is on record vocally opposing Trump’s early travel ban on China. His claim of an early call for lockdown, which took place during his now-infamous interview on The Breakfast Club, (2:34) has not been fact checked by Twitter,” Breitbart explains.
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3. NOT FACT-CHECKED: China claimed the coronavirus was created by members of the US military
For some insane reason, the American media seems to frequently take claims pushed by the Chinese Communist Party to heart, or simply ignore the audacity of their claims outright.
Breitbart explains that, “In March, Chinese government spokesman Lijian Zhao tweeted that ‘it might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.’ Beijing propagandists have also spread the false narrative, highlighted by U.S. lawmakers in a March letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, that China did everything possible to control the global spread of the virus — even though the communist government initially tried to cover up reports of the burgeoning outbreak in Wuhan, where the virus emerged.”
Even when presented with the opportunity to address Chinese misinformation, Twitter publicly declined to do so.
“In March, Twitter announced it would not take action against Chinese misinformation posted to the platform by official government accounts, such as those shown below. China has doubled the number of official accounts tweeting since January, and they have tweeted 90,000 times since April. Luckily for the communist country, China doesn’t face the same scrutiny on the platform as President Trump,” Breitbart notes.
This is sheer insanity at best.
2/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!15.4K10:37 AM - Mar 12, 2020
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In our fight against #COVID19, the Chinese government has always been open, transparent & responsible. We always speak the truth with facts. It’s crystal clear which country has been doing everything possible to ensure people’s life & health & promote anti-pandemic cooperation.
