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Bottom line is that Trump needs fact checked, his own words prove that, how many times has he lied or said something completely untrue since being in office?

The same applies to just about any politician, no? Do you think Trump is the only politician who lies?

There's also the question of who fact-checks the fact-checkers.
 

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The same applies to just about any politician, no? Do you think Trump is the only politician who lies?

There's also the question of who fact-checks the fact-checkers.
This could go on forever with nothing ever being checked. He was called onm an untrue statement and like any 5 year old wants to strike back
 

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This could go on forever with nothing ever being checked. He was called onm an untrue statement and like any 5 year old wants to strike back

Or perhaps we could teach critical thinking skills and encourage people to check what politicians of all stripes claim. Surely it's not such a radical idea.
 

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Neither is banning those who make many untrue statements and at the very least correcting it
 

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Neither is banning those who make many untrue statements and at the very least correcting it

The trouble with correcting is that the correction effectively becomes an editorial, at which point social media becomes a publishing platform rather than merely a virtual public square.

If social media just wants to be a place where people can present viewpoints and each individual can decide which viewpoints to accept that's one thing, and it's reasonable for them to claim they aren't a publisher. As soon as social media starts to say that this viewpoint can be expressed but that viewpoint cannot they cease to be the "virtual public square" and become a publisher. If they attempt to become some kind of arbiter of what is true and what is not, they effectively become a publisher.

Look at the way social media has been working to remove videos presenting dissenting views regarding the coronavirus. Whatever their policy may be on removing things that contradict the CDO/WHO/whoever else, do they really think that dissenting viewpoints are so dangerous people can't be allowed to make up their own minds?

If we banned people who said things that weren't true we'd have to ban just about every politician from the public square. Come to think of it, maybe that isn't such a bad idea after all.
 
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