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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

TBD | Trump and Twitter Go to War

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, after years of inaction, Twitter fact checked President Trump’s tweets for the first time. Six words were added below the original text, directing readers to outside articles refuting his claims. Two days later, the president signed an executive order that aims to change the nature of online speech, and the platforms that host it. Guest: Casey Newton, Silicon Valley editor at the Verge   Host Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On Tuesday, this little thing popped up on Twitter.

0:30.0

A hyperlink under two of the president's tweets, with a blue exclamation point.

0:34.0

It said, get the facts about mail-in ballots, and if you clicked on the link, it led to news articles.

0:40.0

They explained that the president's tweets, which claim things like, and I'm quoting here,

0:45.0

there is no way, zero, that mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent, or in fact unsubstantiated.

0:53.0

When you saw that, what was your reaction?

0:58.0

Well, it's always surprising when Twitter takes action.

1:03.0

Twitter is the most slow-moving of our tech companies, and their MO is to consider things for many years,

1:11.0

and then sort of come up with a half-measure after the fact.

1:16.0

That's Casey Newton. He's the Silicon Valley editor for the Verge,

1:19.0

and he's written about Twitter's decision-making process a lot over the past few years.

1:24.0

How the company is dealt with online harassment, how they've been slowed,

1:28.0

or remove people like conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,

1:31.0

and how, since the 2016 election, Twitter has been trying to figure out what to do

1:36.0

when the president tweets something inaccurate, especially about voting.

1:41.0

I think a lot of people had sort of given up on the idea that Twitter would ever take any action,

1:46.0

because there had been so many previous Trump tweets that seemed to some people to have gone over that line.

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