Twitter fact checks about vote fraud are garbage

Red States:

Twitter’s pathetic attempt at “fact checking” President Trump’s tweets about mail-in ballot voting being ripe for fraud has sparked major backlash among conservatives who, in turn, have fact checked Twitter’s erroneous claim that Trump’s remarks were “unsubstantiated.”

Trump himself has pushed back, promising “big action to follow!” after alleging that “Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct.”

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox and Friends this morning to discuss the developing situation, and during the interview, she got to the heart of the matter as to why conservatives and independent voters don’t trust and should not trust Twitter to fact check anyone – not just because Twitter’s own so-called “head of integrity” has frequently bashed Trump, but also because of who they rely on for their fact checks:

“These people have got nothing important right over the last three years, beginning with the very election where they were relying on their own data.”

“I have a treasure trove of peoples’ articles of how Hillary Clinton wasn’t even saying Donald Trump’s name, Barack Obama has hardly [uttered] Hillary Clinton’s name because they all thought that the election was decided long before that,” Conway continued. “Why? Because there’s very little respect for democracy.”

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Conway said that the president has given a voice to the voiceless on his social media accounts.

“Fact-check: Over 90 percent of mainstream media reportedly vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. So many conservatives and many non-liberals and many non-voters feel like they have a platform on social media that allows them, for free, to express themselves,” she argued.

“I mean, they are relying upon the same people who attack him all day long to ‘fact-check’ him,” Conway added.

Watch Conway’s full answer as to why Twitter’s decision to start this was by far not their best move:

Consider this, too: Not only is Twitter relying on fact checks from biased news organizations like CNN and the Washington Post, but the fact checkers/media watchers at CNN and the Washington Post oftentimes get their supposedly “reliable” information from left wing news sites. CNN’s Oliver Darcy provides us with the perfect example of this:

Another example is Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, who frequently retweets Vox.com’s Aaron Rupar. Rupar is notorious for posting video clips and adding his interpretation (which is often wrong) to the clips. Those clips often go viral without the reporters retweeting them actually taking the time to watch the video.

“Journalists” like Kessler just see Rupar’s take on the clip and run with it as though it’s the gospel truth. They don’t fact check him at all. By the time the truth is known, it’s too late....

On top of that the person at Twitter responsible for the alleged fact checks is an anti-Trump activist who clearly does not like the President or his policies.  There is also some evidence that Twitter has a conflict on the issue because of its ties to mail-in voting.

I get the impression that Democrats are all for vote fraud if they think it gives them a better chance of winning.  You can find more on the vote fraud potential of mail-in voting here