Twitter Adds Warning Label to President Trump’s Tweet
Twitter adds a warning stamp to President Trump’s tweet. Reporting from CNN and the Washington Post was a part of the “foundation” for that warning stamp. Meanwhile, lots of propaganda tweets by leftists, and those like members of the Chinese Communist Party, await similar “check this tweet’s facts” stamp. (Fox News)
President Trump accurately pointed out the vulnerability that mail-in ballots have to election cheating. People could “harvest ballots”, enter a vote for someone not authorized to vote, vote for someone that’s no longer alive, etc. There have even been reports of actual mistakes or fraud involved with absentee ballot applications and absentee voting.
What was Twitter’s reaction to President Trump’s tweet regarding the potential to cheat with mail-in balloting? A warning tag claiming that CNN, the Washington Post, and others have indicated that this wasn’t the case.
From Fox News:
…Trump tweeted: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!”
Within hours, Twitter then appended a label to the bottom of the tweet reading, “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.”
Clicking that label brought readers to a paragraph reading: “On Tuesday, President Trump made a series of claims about potential voter fraud after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an effort to expand mail-in voting in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. These claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post and others. Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.”
Twitter went on to note in a “What to Know” section that “fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud”…
Fox News has the full article here.
The fact that we are even having this discussion
8 years after they started censoring people on the
Right Side of the fence tells me no one really gives
A shit
Semi-blatant propaganda didn’t work in 2016. They must double their efforts!
“The Emperor is coming here ???”
“We shall redouble our efforts!!!”
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1265457578215124995
SMDH.
How the fuck did we get here?
Caution: May be upsetting to progressive f*cktard snowflakes.
BHWHAHAHAHA. !!!!!!!!!
I offer this in response to this poor tortured soul:
https://youtu.be/Ef9QnZVpVd8
Never gets old watching her.
There will be voting fraud in this election. The demonrats already know how many votes they need to get the Electoral College votes they need for each state. There has been voter fraud since voting began. And it is more important to the domestic enemies of our Republic than ever for them to steal this election.
“…CNN, WAPO, and others…” Experts? My Aunt Fannie!
Funny how Twitter went to CNN, MSN, etc instead of looking at actual cases:
The president’s re-election campaign responded quickly to Acosta’s request, noting there were nine people charged in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas with “vote harvesting” and mail ballots, a political operative in New York stealing and submitting absentee ballots, and a resident in Pennsylvania receiving seven separate ballots in the mail.
The campaign also shared a Heritage Foundation document of over 1,000 proven cases of vote fraud.
“Democrats and the mainstream media always scoff at claims of voter fraud, but then completely ignore evidence from across the country,” Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. “The obvious reason is that Democrats are just fine with the possibility of voter fraud. And many in the media just see the world their way.”
(source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/26/twitter-brands-trump-vote-by-mail-post-with-fact-check-citing-cnn/ )
The issue is never whether voter fraud exists, but the breadth of the fraud according to some. Constant is the refrain of “it’s only a few cases.” Yet on the flip side, one case of racial prejudice means everyone is a bigot.
One bad cop somehow means all cops are bad.
Twitter is not interested in “facts.” They are only interested in putting forth narratives that support their beliefs……facts be damned.
Constant is the refrain of “it’s only a few cases.” Yet on the flip side, one case of racial prejudice means everyone is a bigot.
General rule: am error on our part is a regrettable one-off mistake, one mistake on the part of our opponent is evidence of systemic, evil failure.
If anyone is interested, this is likely the Heritage Foundation document in question:
https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/voterfraud_download/VoterFraudCases_5.pdf
Since that study was published, the Heritage Foundation has documented nearly 200 additional cases of voter fraud.
https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/database-swells-1285-proven-cases-voter-fraud-america
Funny how Twitter, Facebook, etc rarely if ever put these disclaimers on statements made by left wing politicians. It’s kind of like how Bloomberg “news” straight out said that they would not be fact checking claims made by Democratic Presidential candidates.
I sent the following email to the Breitbart News Network guy quoted: allumbokhari@protonmail.com I have served as a county election commissioner since 2003, served six years as a state election commissioner, served as President of the Arkansas Election Commissions Association and represented the United States six times as an international election observe for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in former republics of the Soviet Union in West-Asia and the Soviet Union. Fair to say I know a little about elections and absentee ballots. Absentee ballots offer the best opportunity for election fraud because the voting commission does not have control over who votes them. In Arkansas’s Critten County a few years back former State Representative Hudson Hallum was convicted of election fraud via absentee ballots, removed from office, received a $20,000 fine and 100 hours community service. His father, received a probationary sentence with nine months of home confinement. Google the news articles. In this case what was interesting, Hallum used absentee ballot fraud to win his primary election with workers dumb enough to be recorded offering Hallum’s opponent absentee ballot votes for cash. Other efforts included following the mail carrier and scooping ballots out of elderly voter’s mailboxes and trading chicken dinners and vodka for absentee ballots. In one case when I was on the state board, there was a witness the wife of a small town postmaster was taking absentee ballots out of post office boxes or directly from unprocessed mail, voting and returning them. A relative of hers was in a municipal race. Despite a witness neither the Postal Service Inspectors or FBI showed any interest. The problem is in addition to no control over who receives a ballot by mail, is with an all absentee election, or even a substantially larger absentee election is getting the ballots counted. Most counties don’t have sufficient paper ballot counters so these ballots are going to be hand counted. Either way results will not be timely and if hand counted offer the opportunity for human error. There are safe ways to vote at polling sites and no… Read more »
Weirdly, Donks demanded prosecution for Republican ballot harvesting in a district of NC,
for the same activity -mandated- in California.
Out of curiosity, does anyone here believe the voting in Utah or Colorado or Hawaii has been widely fraudulent? Those states have had mail in voting and with negligible fraud. Not zero, of course, but in-person voting isn’t free of fraud either.
I’m all for substantial oversight of mail-in ballots (just as I am voting in general), but if it increases participation in our elections while remaining negligible -like it has in those states which have it- then it seems a net good.
It doesn’t have to be “widely fraudulent” to change the outcome of a close election. I guess you have forgotten about the trunk full of late found ballots that got Stewart Smalley elected to the Senate from Minnesota.
And don’t forget the several hundred ineligible votes cast by felons during that election!
Sure, I seem to recall a state election last cycle where someone won by a single vote, even.
But, these are exceptions to the rule. Fraud still happens with in-person voting, so the question is why are we drawing the line here, on mail-in voting, when it works in several states already, without any noticeable uptick in fraud.
At the end of the day, the positives from allowing more people -the vast majority of them honest- participate in our elections seems to outweigh the negatives of a perceived, even if not documented, increase in fraud.
We don’t have perfection in anything. Guns misfire. Cars break down. Medicine has side effects. But in each case, the good outweighs the possible -but generally small- chance of some unintended result.
Fraud happens -less- with in-person voting.
It will happen even less with a hard requirement for voter ID.
Why does your side always find some reason to make it easier to cheat in voting?
I would like to see ID with proof of citizenship and then the purple thumb inking after dropping the ballot.
I agree, have everyone show up with a state photo ID and, if eligible, let em vote.
Naw, naw, far too simple a solution.
LC…BS…the vast majority of Americans would sell your kidney if they thought they could.
The Volstead Act should have taught the woke left that Americans are like all people…susceptible to greed and avarice.
Wake up. Massive mail in voting system fraud is not a large impact precisely because they are not a large percentage of the vote.
However, the fact that the fraud in these systems is large as a percentage of the mail in systems. From simply “losing” the ballots as we see routinely in the case of military absentee ballots, to registering thousands of illegals and harvesting those ballots (CA, HI, NV, MN, NY, IL, FL) mail in ballot fraud has swung elections.
Absentee fraud was a factor in the 2000 election when the states of NV and NM “lost” all of them probably swinging those states for Gore.
Anytime I hear a “moderate” or wokie say it isn’t a big deal, I know it is, because I understand that human nature is fallen, not improving and that the new soviet man is a myth, not a goal.
To add to this…isn’t it interesting that people believe there is no fraud with vote by mail systems when there is a major fraud situation going on in Paterson, NJ?
this fraud crosses party lines.
WW1 vets still voting for Dims in 2020.
My only fear of dying is voting demonrat after I die.
I received my 11th generic solicitation to receive an absentee ballot in the mail today.
Arizona voters have a mail-in option, I couldn’t say yes or no that it has been fraudulent, but there were practices that opened the door wide open to fraud. There were many (mostly liberal) organizations “helping” seniors and individuals with limited mobility to vote. This involved going door to door and offering to deliver mail-in ballots to the post office or other accepted delivery location, as well as picking up ballots in bulk from nursing homes and retirement facilities. Once those ballots went into the hands of a third party, their veracity was questionable.
I just ran across this. Voter fraud seems to be an easy crime to commit, nearly impossible to catch without a direct witness. Does it happen on a large enough scale to sway elections? Probably.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/feds-west-virginia-mail-carrier-facing-charges-over-altered-ballot-requests
Mayor Dick Daley and his Cook County political machine have no comment. Likewise, Tammany Hall cannot be reached.
Twitter can say there’s no evidence of fraud. I can, with equal authority, declare the sky to be neon pink and covered with bright green geometric shapes,
They also figuratively stick their fingers in their ears and loudly sing “LA LA LA LA” during discussions.
After 4 years they still don’t get it.
Let me spell it for them:
“It is the economy, stupid.”
There is absolutely nobody on the Democrat Partie that has even a clue of how to run the economy.
I don’t care what the hell Trump tweets. He can say the craziest stupidest thing in the hole wold, it does not matter, because all the Dems are running on the “Green New Deal”.
Losers, the lot of them.
I was opposed to mail-in ballots until expert and fact checkers said my concerns were unwarranted. I should listen to my rulers more often.
Trump is a lying piece of shit. And he is trying to prevent mail in voting in swing states because he knows the more people that vote the less likely he is to win…
That being said, Twitter has stepped on their dicks on this one.
So what now?
Every time they don’t add a link to some dipshit lie Trump spews it means the tweet is true?
Are they going to fact check every tweet?
What sources are they gong to use? It is hard to find a source that is not problematic at this point.
They should have just enforced the same rules for Trump as every user and banned the stupid fuck years ago.
And his entitled little shitsperm of a son should have been banned too.
Honestly, there is zero reason why Trump Jr. is still on the platform at this point.
I can understand their concern about banning the president of the United States…
But his fuckwit son has never been elected, earned, or deserve any special considerations on the platform.
Did we wake up cranky this afternoon?
Menopause?
He went to the sandbox next to the kiddy pool and got sand in his mangina. Male menopause is down the road a few years.
Same squawk, different day. I guess you don’t realize that, do you? You really should seek help for your profanity laden hate spewing. But Thanks for adding to the comment count.
Bitching because someone gets to speak things you don’t want people to hear?
Really, Komrade Kazoo?
The more you rage, the less credibility you have.
Don’t change a note. You only have one, so even that should not challenge you much.
Liberals love free speech as long as it’s something that they approve of. If it isn’t then it must be silenced at all costs.
You sure do love you some fascism, don’t ya, Lars. Is that what your problem is? That you don’t get to prance around in a Hugo Boss jacket with a pair of runic S’s on the collar while the rest of us cower in fear?
So that’s why you wish for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech, freedom of religion, peaceable assembly, etc. That’s why you turn a blind eye to blatant corruption among democrats and socialists. That’s why you love socialism so much. That’s why you extol as “heroes” the people who act *exactly* like SA brownshirts in 1931.
It all makes sense now!
1000 upvotes, TOW. Nailed it.
Fascism?
You still have no idea what the word means,
And, as usual, you don’t understand the constitution. What it applies to, what it does not, and the consequences of trying to shoehorn it into spaces it was never intended to manage.
Of course we don’t. You, and only you, the mighty Commissar, hold the answers and the keys to success. Please, save us from ourselves, free us from our ignorance, we beg of you!
Really? Says the guy who loves to wax intellectual on subjects he demonstrably knows nothing about. The same guy who’s perfectly okay with an Orwellian surveilled police state as long as your fellow-travelers are calling the shots. Have you read any of the Federalist Papers, or any of the Founders’ other correspondence? Or studied the legal challenges Franklin and others brought against the British government prior to the War for Independence? Or read up on the Articles of Confederation, Shays’s Rebellion, or any other contemporary events to give even a shred of context to the text of the Constitution? Given your indefensible positions on it, I’m guessing not. There is an awful lot out there to learn if you ever realize that you don’t know everything.
In the meantime, continue fucking yourself while you stew in your impotent self-righteousness.
Hey, remember that time where you confidently declared that I would soon die of old age, despite the fact that I’m over a decade younger than you?
The idea that a liberal would complain of the Constitution being shoehorned where it was never meant to be… please.
“But his fuckwit son has never been elected, earned, or deserve any special considerations on the platform.“
What about his 1st Amendment right? Oh I guess he shouldn’t have a right to free speech if it doesn’t coincide with the progressive left.
You say Trump lies about everything. I don’t see it. I do wish he would shut up sometimes too. However, saying stupid stuff does not equal lies. How can you try to justify Obama’s lies while trying to call Trump out. Hypocrisy much?
Again, this is not a first amendment issue.
It really is pathetic that you don’t understand the constitution.
The only first amendment issue would be the president retaliating against Twitter. Which he has threatened to do.
Trump lies constantly. If you don’t see it, it is because you don’t wish to.
In fact, not recognizing that Trump is a liar makes you an outlier, even among republicans.
“I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Broaddrick, I mean, Miss Jones. Err, I mean….”
He didn’t have sex with Hillary, but who can blame him?
Why do so many of you use whataboustisms all the time? You realize all you are doing is saying that it is ok for Trump to act like the Clintons.
I hated the Clintons.
And I didn’t vote for either one of them in any election ever.
i voted for Bush, Dole, and Bernie.
“Whataboutism”
The term you hide behind when called on your hypocrisy. A particularly weak form of deflection.
Oddly, it is your lack of credibility here that gets frequently noted.
How did that happen? Rage-posting a little too often, eh?
If you build for yourself the reputation of “loose with truth”, how can you try to stand on imagined moral superiority saying “liar”?
Folks here are quite knowledgeable and highly educated, with decades of experience on topic and in field, yet you insist disagreements are based on stupidity, ignorance, etc.
You have demonstrated what looks like actual malice, denied it, had your nose rubbed in your own quote on it, and blamed others for misstating the case.
You can’t admit error.
It cripples you. It renders you a caricature. You make yourself fertile ground for exploitation by hostiles.
No pity for you. Self-inflicted wound.
In answer to both posts-
I’m not going to post my resume here, doesn’t matter anyway, but I have also studied the constitution.
You said “ But his fuckwit son has never been elected, earned, or deserve any special considerations on the platform.” my point stands that he doesn’t need to hold an office to be able to speak his mind. This is in keeping with his right to free speech and the platform’s ability/inability to sensor his speach because they don’t like what he has to say. His right as a citizen should allow him to speak his mind without being elected to any office. I guess that’s not the case in a socialist government, so you don’t get it.
To the other point- start admitting that Obama was a liar beFore expecting anyone else to claim the same about Trump, or anyone else for that matter.
Censor
Dammit
“little shitsperm”
This one should be added to the Wall of Insults!
Dumbfuck Lars
This could get more than a little interesting before it’s done. Sure looks like somebody, or a bunch of somebodies, have once again fallen into the trap that Trump set for them. He’s been baiting them how long now???
(Trump holds football for Lefty to kick)
“AAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!”
On May 27, 2020 at 5:24 pm 11B-Mailclerk wrote: Fraud happens -less- with in-person voting. I happen to be one of those victims of votor fraud. My county requires a photo ID and that a person signs a book with their name and a previous signature to be compared in order to get a ballot which is then taken to the booth, filled out and then scanned by a little scanner machine. (Think SAT scanning.) I arrived at the polling place and saw the people I knew behind the tables and who knew me by sight – but not by name. We joked as we always did and I pulled out my ID. They flipped to the page of the book to sign and there was my name, a signature, and ballot number that had been given to another person. “What the heck?” It took awhile, but I got a new ballot and demanded that the fraudulent ballot be removed from the count. The precinct “captain” was panicking as were the workers. A call to the County Supervisor and the Police (who came to verify who I was) got things straightened out. The forged ballot was removed from the system and I voted. No one ever figured out who had forged the vote or why. Another time I turned in the ballot, and as I always do, watched it be inserted in the “Scan-O-Matic” machine except this time the machine didn’t register the ballot. The worker said it was not a big deal. “It is to me if my vote is not counted,” I said. He said they run tallies at the end of the night. “The end of the night is now,” I countered. Even though they normally do running counts of the ballots during the day, they refused to do a running count then. In the run up to the election, as part of a radio show, I had interviewed the Supervisor of Elections and had her private number. I called her and explained the situation. She told the precinct to do a recount. They had 56 more… Read more »
Less, not none.
I see no valid reason to make it easier to cheat.
Reducing government power reduces the incentive to cheat. We need to go that way.
Meanwhile, death penalty for ballot fraud. Absent that, life without parole. Ballot fraud disenfranchises folks.