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babylonsister

(171,092 posts)
Thu May 28, 2020, 08:22 AM May 2020

Twitter CEO Tells Trump: We'll Keep Pointing Out Your Factual Inaccuracies

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jack-dorsey-tells-trump-well-keep-pointing-out-your-factual-inaccuracies?ref=home

Twitter CEO Tells Trump: We’ll Keep Pointing Out Your Factual Inaccuracies
‘DISPUTED INFORMATION’
Jamie Ross. Reporter
Updated May. 28, 2020 7:06AM ET /
Published May. 28, 2020 5:25AM ET


Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is refusing to back down over fact-checking in the face of relentless criticism from the White House. Dorsey’s company has become the target of President Trump’s fury after it added a disclaimer to one of his tweets earlier this week. First, Trump threatened to close down social-media companies who he thinks are “show bias” against conservatives, and it was reported late Wednesday that he will sign an executive order to remove important legal protections from sites like Twitter and Facebook. In a series of tweets, Dorsey wrote that Twitter will “continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make.” He added: “This does not make us an ‘arbiter of truth.’ Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves.” Despite his new vigor for fighting disinformation, this week Dorsey denied a widower’s request to remove Trump tweets that baselessly suggested Lori Klausutis was murdered in 2001 by her boss, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
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Twitter CEO Tells Trump: We'll Keep Pointing Out Your Factual Inaccuracies (Original Post) babylonsister May 2020 OP
Grow a set Jack vercetti2021 May 2020 #1
Exposure might be better. Like the audience also. empedocles May 2020 #3
No, expose his lies! Nt USALiberal May 2020 #12
" . . . Your Factual Inaccuracies" - droll undestatement empedocles May 2020 #2
Isn't that a quaint expression? Scarsdale May 2020 #19
Don't like the careful, 'tiptoe' characterizations either empedocles May 2020 #25
Let's see what happens . . Iliyah May 2020 #4
"We'll Keep Pointing Out"? Hey, Dorsey...this the first time you've "pointed out" Trump's lies. sop May 2020 #5
*This* brer cat May 2020 #8
Jack is betting on the drama. He wants a fight with Trump. C_U_L8R May 2020 #6
Exactly as you say. NoRoadUntravelled May 2020 #18
They should do something like Bot Sentinel (pictures below) NewJeffCT May 2020 #7
+100000 Celerity May 2020 #16
Great idea. fleur-de-lisa May 2020 #27
Cool story, Bro GusBob May 2020 #9
Hey Jack, please go back and flag all the birther tweets while you're at it SoonerPride May 2020 #10
Good first step, CEO ... Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #11
Easiest thing for most people is to not lie. But Donny Six Words is a pathological liar. Only thing Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #13
People love a feud. tavernier May 2020 #14
Hey Jack could be an actual job creator! MontanaMama May 2020 #15
This IS NOT "information in dispute" ScratchCat May 2020 #17
Calling Hillary Clinton a skank Scarsdale May 2020 #24
Never let it be said that Dorsey didn't do the least he could do gratuitous May 2020 #20
"disputed information about elections globally" justgamma May 2020 #21
Anyone else would have simply been banned a long time ago. NYC Liberal May 2020 #22
I'm still hoping for a big-bucks defamation lawsuit filed by Joe Scarborough FakeNoose May 2020 #23
For those on twitter, why not start a campaign to boycott the platform and deny dotard an Audience Thekaspervote May 2020 #26

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
19. Isn't that a quaint expression?
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:47 AM
May 2020

Why not speak in plain English and call them what they are DAMN LIES.

sop

(10,253 posts)
5. "We'll Keep Pointing Out"? Hey, Dorsey...this the first time you've "pointed out" Trump's lies.
Thu May 28, 2020, 08:31 AM
May 2020

The POS's been lying, libeling and spreading misinformation on your platform for years, and you did nothing.

brer cat

(24,606 posts)
8. *This*
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:18 AM
May 2020

Anyone else would have been banned from twitter for the vile crap trump posts. He should have jumped on this much sooner.

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)
6. Jack is betting on the drama. He wants a fight with Trump.
Thu May 28, 2020, 08:35 AM
May 2020

And Trump wants a fight with Twitter.
Folks, this is high tech professional wrestling.
Don't fall for it.

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
18. Exactly as you say.
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:45 AM
May 2020

Somehow Trump manages to cast new players in his three ring circus of a reality shart show every time he needs to draw attention away from the stains on his backside.
I'm gonna let Jack fight the Orange Lizard.
I don't want the world to forget....
Babies in cages.
100,000 Dead
George Floyd
The list goes on and on

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
7. They should do something like Bot Sentinel (pictures below)
Thu May 28, 2020, 08:42 AM
May 2020

My friend Scott on Twitter uses it and showed me a few pictures of what it does to Trump - picture below


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SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
10. Hey Jack, please go back and flag all the birther tweets while you're at it
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:28 AM
May 2020

Point out some "factual inaccuracies" there.

Thanks,
The American people

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,043 posts)
13. Easiest thing for most people is to not lie. But Donny Six Words is a pathological liar. Only thing
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:36 AM
May 2020

Lying is his total way of being. Fake wealth, fake hair, fake wife, fake promises, fake tan, fake fake fake.

tavernier

(12,401 posts)
14. People love a feud.
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:38 AM
May 2020

This is good for business. Twitter is a business. I’m fairly certain they won’t step too hard on Rump’s toes… might flare up those old bone spurs.

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
15. Hey Jack could be an actual job creator!
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:38 AM
May 2020

Because he would have to hire a team of 24/7 fact checkers to monitor the fat fuck in the WH.

ScratchCat

(2,002 posts)
17. This IS NOT "information in dispute"
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:39 AM
May 2020

Good grief. Why can't these idiots just say the following:

"Joe Scarborough did not murder Lori Klausutis in 2001 and Donald Trump is not going to use our private platform to claim otherwise. These posts go far over the line and will not be tolerated."

What.Is.So.Hard?

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
24. Calling Hillary Clinton a skank
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:57 AM
May 2020

should have been censored, too. All the despicable names he calls people are so beneath the office of president, that he exposes himself as a fraud on a daily basis. Maybe if these accusations against Scarborough had been made earlier, Joe would not have had tRump on his show daily - for FREE publicity? We may have been saved from this national nightmare. What tRump needs is a FULL TIME JOB, and lessons on how to do it.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
20. Never let it be said that Dorsey didn't do the least he could do
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:49 AM
May 2020

The only person who's done less in pushing back against Trump's firehose of bullshit is Mark Zuckerberg. Which may be why Zuck's got a major league case of butthurt because of Dorsey: For as little as Dorsey's done, he's shown up Zuck. And it didn't take hardly anything to do that.

justgamma

(3,667 posts)
21. "disputed information about elections globally"
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:53 AM
May 2020

Does that mean it is the only thing they will fact check? Lame.

FakeNoose

(32,767 posts)
23. I'm still hoping for a big-bucks defamation lawsuit filed by Joe Scarborough
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:56 AM
May 2020

Scarborough is reportedly looking to sue the shit out of Chump, and Jack Dorsey/Twitter should also be named. This behavior has to stop, but it won't until some big people have to fork over a lot of dough.

Don't settle Joe, don't let them get away with this. Hold their feet to the fire and make Dorsey fire Chump from Twitter once and for all!



Thekaspervote

(32,794 posts)
26. For those on twitter, why not start a campaign to boycott the platform and deny dotard an Audience
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:04 AM
May 2020

Maybe the grifters would follow along! Leaving dotard all alone

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