Originally Posted by
Risen
I think that is media over-saturation that is causing this perspective you have. What you are hearing these days is "Twitter's First Fact Check" of the president's tweets. In truth, there were other fact checks and markers placed, well before.
The Twitter policy was announced Feb 4, 2020 and went into effect 30 days later on March 5, 2020. Facebook published a like policy late 2019. Twitter first made big news when it tagged what it claims was a manipulated video from the White House Director of Social Media posted on March 7th. Facebook quickly followed suit on this particular video. And that is around the first time that I recall hearing about how unfair it is that conservative voices are being shut out.
What I find amusing presently is that Twitter is kicking out fact-check markers all over the place now, on a broad spectrum. I am sure the left will support the view that correctly applying the artificial intelligence to function properly would take time, while the right will evangelize the blatant targeting of its presence and reach beyond the "fake-news media with the facts" that our president has insisted is the only reason he uses Twitter for.
There is one grain of truth in all of that, in that Twitter is testing and applying the applicability of its policies and automation on those accounts with the broadest reach and appeal as "a public service". This undoubtedly must include our very prominent-tweeting president. In an odd way, the president could claim to be important enough to Twitter to be fact-checked as a badge of honor.