20 Hours on Twitter
The Dispatch Podcast
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🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Isger, joined as always by Steve |
| 0:05.4 | Hayes, Jonah Goldberg and David French. This podcast is brought to you by The Dispatch, |
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| 0:18.7 | Today we're going to talk about Twitter's fact check of the President and the President's |
| 0:22.6 | response, Joe Biden's comments on the Breakfast Club and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, |
| 0:29.0 | and the political calculus behind the President's attacks on Joe Scarborough. Plus, with a maximum |
| 0:34.3 | of 16 days left until the little dude makes his appearance, I ask the guys for their best |
| 0:38.9 | parenting advice. |
| 0:39.7 | Let's dive right in. So on May 11th, Twitter introduced a new policy over memo. Here's what |
| 1:01.6 | a portion of the May 11th memo said. Starting today, we're introducing new labels and warning |
| 1:07.5 | messages that will provide additional context and information on some tweets containing |
| 1:12.4 | disputed or misleading information related to COVID-19. |
| 1:18.2 | Yesterday, the President tweeted, there is zero way, zero, that mail-in ballots will be |
| 1:25.1 | anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be |
| 1:29.6 | forged and even illegally printed out and fraudulently signed. The governor of California |
| 1:34.2 | sending ballots to millions of people. Anyone living in the state, no matter who they are, |
| 1:39.0 | how they got there will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all |
| 1:42.7 | of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how and for whom |
| 1:47.3 | to vote. This will be a rigged election. No way. |
| 1:53.2 | Twitter, later in the day, put a little addendum at the bottom in blue. It's at exclamation |
| 1:57.6 | point, get the facts about mail-in ballots. When you clicked through to that, it said, it |
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