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Twitter is being very unfair to the President again

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This quote says it all, I love the fake news irony:

Trump tweeted a video with a fake CNN graphic; the video claims, "America is not the problem. Fake news is."
A Twitter spokesperson said Thursday night, "This Tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context."
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www.cnn.com

Parent of toddler in 'manipulated' Trump video forces Facebook and Twitter to remove it

Facebook and Twitter on Friday removed a video posted by President Donald Trump's account that had twisted a viral video of two toddlers after one of the children's parents lodged a copyright claim. The video had more than 4 million views on Facebook and more than 20 million views on Twitter...
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Again he really can claim ignorance in not knowing that video was altered. But twitter should just go after the original tweet. Kill that off and the orange baby has nothing to RT
 
Maybe the good thing to come out of this presidency is the actual empowerment of the press when it comes to politicians. Hopefully the press' willingness to question and challenge at this level will extend to all politicians. We could have used this when W was building a case for war with Iraq. I for one would love to see TV news put up "misleading" tags on ads. Obviously we don't want censorship, but with enough "corrections" maybe politicians will start talking about their ideas instead of making up shit about their opponents.
 
eelw said:
Again he really can claim ignorance in not knowing that video was altered. But twitter should just go after the original tweet. Kill that off and the orange baby has nothing to RT
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This is the guy with the fucking launch codes to most powerful military in the world.

And he cannot spot a fake graphic.. no way he can claim ignornace on it
 
eelw said:
Again he really can claim ignorance in not knowing that video was altered. But twitter should just go after the original tweet. Kill that off and the orange baby has nothing to RT
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Can he though? He's the president. He should verify what he posts. If I wrote a paper and citied some dude on 4chan as "evidence" I'd be responsible for not vetting. I'm sure that every worker in this country is held to that standard. The president is the people's employee. We should demand and expect that he is never "ignorant". He should vet everything he claims as factual.
 
SmCaudata said:
Can he though? He's the president. He should verify what he posts. If I wrote a paper and citied some dude on 4chan as "evidence" I'd be responsible for not vetting. I'm sure that every worker in this country is held to that standard. The president is the people's employee. We should demand and expect that he is never "ignorant". He should vet everything he claims as factual.
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Problem is to this President we are his subjects, he is King & the God Emperor.
 
Trump retweets a doctored video designed to promote racial animus when the original promoted racial healing.

Is this more evidence Trump is not racist???
 
The irony of all this is that Trump and his media machine are the biggest source of fake news in America. Which is self-evident as he rails against fake news with an intentionally doctored video.
 
Vic said:
The irony of all this is that Trump and his media machine are the biggest source of fake news in America. Which is self-evident as he rails against fake news with an intentionally doctored video.
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It's not irony at all. The term fake news originated when Trump White House posted pictures of Obama's first inauguration, claiming them to be Trump's inauguration. He later lashed out at the media posting pictures of the Mall for Trump vs. Obama side by side, labeling them as fake news.

At this point in Trumpworld "fake news" means anything that is not Trump propaganda. It reflects much more on the accuser than the purported subject.
 
On a serious note. Do we as a world have any recourse to stop the spread of fake news? I mean its just going to get worse if we dont tackle it somehow. The power media and fake news can have over people is scary. I don't like the idea of bans, but maybe that is what it would take? Laws against doctored/obviously fake news with prison time?
 
soulcougher73 said:
On a serious note. Do we as a world have any recourse to stop the spread of fake news? I mean its just going to get worse if we dont tackle it somehow. The power media and fake news can have over people is scary. I don't like the idea of bans, but maybe that is what it would take? Laws against doctored/obviously fake news with prison time?
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The best way to stop fake news is through public education in critical thinking. Attempting to ban it will only increase its popularity IMO. However, I do believe the original owner of the video should be able to have some form of legal recourse against the doctoring.
 
Thump553 said:
It's not irony at all. The term fake news originated when Trump White House posted pictures of Obama's first inauguration, claiming them to be Trump's inauguration. He later lashed out at the media posting pictures of the Mall for Trump vs. Obama side by side, labeling them as fake news.
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The term originated earlier than that. During the election, the American right wing and the Russian troll army were littering Facebook and private e-mails with targeted ads designed to look like a news feed. Headlines like "Hillary kills again!" and "Biden's secret love child" were plastered all over the internet. When people talked about "fake news" that's what they were referring to. Until, of course, Trump came out with his "Nuh-uh, you're fake news!" strategy and co-opted the phrase.
 
Vic said:
The best way to stop fake news is through public education in critical thinking. Attempting to ban it will only increase its popularity IMO. However, I do believe the original owner of the video should be able to have some form of legal recourse against the doctoring.
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it might help if we had some form of the fairness doctrine that would address the intentional false stories propagating the social media sites/apps.
 
eelw said:
Nah electing people with morals and ethics will solve this fake news problem.
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I do agree that electing a President with the morals and ethics to not knowingly tweet a doctored and defamatory video would be a great first step. It is pretty amazing just how ethically and morally bankrupt the current President and his supporters prove themselves to be on an almost daily basis. The weirdest part of that is their 'we lie because we have to' attitude, as though that isn't a key definition of unethical behavior.
 
Vic said:
I do agree that electing a President with the morals and ethics to not knowingly tweet a doctored and defamatory video would be a great first step. It is pretty amazing just how ethically and morally bankrupt the current President and his supporters prove themselves to be on an almost daily basis. The weirdest part of that is their 'we lie because we have to' attitude, as though that isn't a key definition of unethical behavior.
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what gets me is they will lie even if the truth will serve them better, I believe trump is a pathological liar who can't tell the truth even if his life depended on it but his supporters and enablers do it because they don't want to admit they are on the wrong side of anything.
 
dawp said:
what gets me is they will lie even if the truth will serve them better, I believe trump is a pathological liar who can't tell the truth even if his life depended on it but his supporters and enablers do it because they don't want to admit they are on the wrong side of anything.
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In a sense he isn’t a liar, he is just so mentally ill he cannot fathom being wrong about anything and cannot turn away a compliment. He literally is incapable of either.
He saw some tweet with some words he like so of course they are right and twitter and all of us are wrong.
 
eelw said:
Nah electing people with morals and ethics will solve this fake news problem.
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Right, and that is exactly what Republicans do. Only the best people. Without training in critical thinking we are lost, but no corporation wants people with critical thinking skills seeing their ads. The economy of meaningless junk would collapse. I think the 1% thrives on the fact that Americans proud of being anti-intellectual because criticzal thinking is just another word for using your intellect to arrive at rational decision making. Critical thinking helps you decide what you need, not what advertizers tell you you need or deserve because you are a special snowflake. You can sell people who grunt their way through live almost anything so long as it makes them proud of being pigs.
 
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