Facebook and Twitter both issued clear policies: Publishing misinformation about voting methods in advance of the 2020 election is prohibited. But the companies have decided not to enforce these policies against Trump.
Dude shouldn't even be allowed on Twitter. And Facebook's shift toward an open door policy on dishonest political advertising has been well documented, notably here.
As long as these companies enjoy a monopolistic share of the social media market, it's hard to see what we can do to limit their influence. I would say Congress should act in this regard, but well, it's Congress.
I will die to vote. Trump will not suppress me. And, I'm just one person, but I'll go and vote that monster out, because I love the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And I want it BACK.
No ads will help him. People with dead relatives who've just been scammed into taking a potentially harmful snake oil will not vote for that pathetic excuse for a rejected used-car salesman. Trump would be a beggar if he wasn't born into money, & w/ the congenital defect that he has absolutely no shame.
Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are two of the biggest cowards in the world. They know that trump is in direct violation of their policies, but they fear his retaliation if they do their job. Why have any policies at all? I got banned from twitter for life for tweeting at Tomi Lahren, "you sound like a bimbo". That tweet got me banned for life. I didn't even call her a bimbo directly, I said she sounded like one and that was enough to ban me for life. Yet trump can purposely spread lies and misinformation to MILLIONS and he doesn't even get suspended. Twitter and Facebook are both complete jokes that only care about $$$ they do not care where it comes from or how they make it.
He said even before he was "elected" in 2016 what he was going to do. Doesn't anyone else remember that before the election, he was already screaming about voter fraud, and that he was going to challenge the election results, "unless I win"? This is part and parcel of the same mentality. Corporations (especially the social media giants) backed off then, and there is no reason for anyone to assume or hope that they would act differently this time around.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed there is "bipartisan consensus on the fact that mass mail-in voting can lead to fraud."
Wait. What? Bipartisan consensus? Consensus?!? First, finding a small handful of Dems who buy into the voting fraud lie is hard to imagine. But a majority of Dems?
These people are beyond belief. They'll say anything they think sounds good, just the Joey Goebbels taught them.
From NPR: Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Wednesday.
I wonder if Twitter or Facebook have been intimidated by the rumors of antitrust enforcement that the President and others started feeding the press last Friday. Any thoughts on that?
I also wonder why you don't need to include Google / YouTube in this critique. Perhaps their offerings are not susceptible to the same kind of abuse?
Thanks for the great investigations and reporting.
Another fine article, Judd, Thank you. I spent the last week in hospital for planned surgery, stent replacement etc. Should have taken 2 days but COVID treatments demand resources first, and I was comfortable and happy to wait. However, I have chosen to believe that the only way we can save America is for #Mangowanker Turdking to have a massive stroke, or to be eaten by Stephen Miller during one of his midnight prowls.
Every discussion of Trump's opposition to mail-in voting should start with an acknowledgement that Trump, himself, votes by mail. (Not that hypocrisy is a deterrent for Trump, but it matters to some of us.)
Trump. Is. A. Liar. I wish Twitter and FB would show some backbone. For example, his latest claim that he is dosing daily with Hydroxychloroquine is a lie. It’s a once weekly dosing for malaria prevention and among lupus patients, dosing is intermittent (as symptoms occur). Can you imagine the state of the unhealthily obese Trump‘s liver if he was dosing daily? And on top of it, because of his stupid insistence about the value of this drug in “prevention and treatment” for COVID-19, and I think the stockpiling that has happened, some people who take it legitimately for lupus, are unable to get their prescriptions filled. Judd, have you seen anything about the problems lupus patients are having to get hydroxychloroquine?
Both Facebook and Twitter have allowed the traitor to defy any and all rules of decency and incitement, with no penalty. Insult any of the snowflake Fox News mouthpieces and get banned permanently but Trump can rile his gun-nut base to go after journalists with impunity. And we just talk about it like another political news story rather than the nightmarish slide to autocracy that our normalizing of it threatens.
Dude shouldn't even be allowed on Twitter. And Facebook's shift toward an open door policy on dishonest political advertising has been well documented, notably here.
As long as these companies enjoy a monopolistic share of the social media market, it's hard to see what we can do to limit their influence. I would say Congress should act in this regard, but well, it's Congress.
I will die to vote. Trump will not suppress me. And, I'm just one person, but I'll go and vote that monster out, because I love the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And I want it BACK.
No ads will help him. People with dead relatives who've just been scammed into taking a potentially harmful snake oil will not vote for that pathetic excuse for a rejected used-car salesman. Trump would be a beggar if he wasn't born into money, & w/ the congenital defect that he has absolutely no shame.
Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are two of the biggest cowards in the world. They know that trump is in direct violation of their policies, but they fear his retaliation if they do their job. Why have any policies at all? I got banned from twitter for life for tweeting at Tomi Lahren, "you sound like a bimbo". That tweet got me banned for life. I didn't even call her a bimbo directly, I said she sounded like one and that was enough to ban me for life. Yet trump can purposely spread lies and misinformation to MILLIONS and he doesn't even get suspended. Twitter and Facebook are both complete jokes that only care about $$$ they do not care where it comes from or how they make it.
He said even before he was "elected" in 2016 what he was going to do. Doesn't anyone else remember that before the election, he was already screaming about voter fraud, and that he was going to challenge the election results, "unless I win"? This is part and parcel of the same mentality. Corporations (especially the social media giants) backed off then, and there is no reason for anyone to assume or hope that they would act differently this time around.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed there is "bipartisan consensus on the fact that mass mail-in voting can lead to fraud."
Wait. What? Bipartisan consensus? Consensus?!? First, finding a small handful of Dems who buy into the voting fraud lie is hard to imagine. But a majority of Dems?
These people are beyond belief. They'll say anything they think sounds good, just the Joey Goebbels taught them.
From NPR: Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Wednesday.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/20/859814085/researchers-nearly-half-of-accounts-tweeting-about-coronavirus-are-likely-bots
I wonder if Twitter or Facebook have been intimidated by the rumors of antitrust enforcement that the President and others started feeding the press last Friday. Any thoughts on that?
I also wonder why you don't need to include Google / YouTube in this critique. Perhaps their offerings are not susceptible to the same kind of abuse?
Thanks for the great investigations and reporting.
Another fine article, Judd, Thank you. I spent the last week in hospital for planned surgery, stent replacement etc. Should have taken 2 days but COVID treatments demand resources first, and I was comfortable and happy to wait. However, I have chosen to believe that the only way we can save America is for #Mangowanker Turdking to have a massive stroke, or to be eaten by Stephen Miller during one of his midnight prowls.
Every discussion of Trump's opposition to mail-in voting should start with an acknowledgement that Trump, himself, votes by mail. (Not that hypocrisy is a deterrent for Trump, but it matters to some of us.)
If we had leadership, they would be coordinating the election process, not driving wedges everywhere: sorry for dwelling on the obvious.
This is all in preparing for the "illegal" election - that is what Trump will call it - before, during and after. How will this shit show end?
Trump. Is. A. Liar. I wish Twitter and FB would show some backbone. For example, his latest claim that he is dosing daily with Hydroxychloroquine is a lie. It’s a once weekly dosing for malaria prevention and among lupus patients, dosing is intermittent (as symptoms occur). Can you imagine the state of the unhealthily obese Trump‘s liver if he was dosing daily? And on top of it, because of his stupid insistence about the value of this drug in “prevention and treatment” for COVID-19, and I think the stockpiling that has happened, some people who take it legitimately for lupus, are unable to get their prescriptions filled. Judd, have you seen anything about the problems lupus patients are having to get hydroxychloroquine?
Both Facebook and Twitter have allowed the traitor to defy any and all rules of decency and incitement, with no penalty. Insult any of the snowflake Fox News mouthpieces and get banned permanently but Trump can rile his gun-nut base to go after journalists with impunity. And we just talk about it like another political news story rather than the nightmarish slide to autocracy that our normalizing of it threatens.