Study Shows Election Misinformation Dropped 73 Percent After Trump's Twitter Suspension

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  1. signalmankenneth

    signalmankenneth Well-Known Member

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    It was a good thing, to permanently take Trump off of Twitter and other social media platforms?!! With Trump off of Twitter for good, he won't be able to promote fake news and alternative facts! This should also apply to other politicians or people in general who promote misinformation too!

    A new study has found that misinformation regarding election fraud has dropped 73 percent ever since that glorious day when Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump's account.

    According to the Washington Post, the research firm Zignal Labs made this determination by looking at the number of tweets discussing election fraud after Trump lost his primary means of spreading baseless theories about his defeat to Joe Biden. What was once 2.5 million mentions plummeted to nearly 688,000, subsequently making Twitter just a slightly less volatile medium.

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    It's sort-a like no news is good news!!
     
  3. Andrew Jackson

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    Long OVERDUE.

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    Did they?

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/trump-outsmarts-twitter-again.583696/
     
  5. Steve N

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    Ah, the left's association with Nazi tactics would certainly make Goebbels proud. Not only is the left controlling what people see and hear, they're cheering it.

    Who decides what misinformation is? Of course it's the left wing media. This is the same media that was relentless with their claims of the Russians hacking our voting machines and changing votes, Russian collusion, pee tapes, German banks, Russian mafia and so on. This is the same media that let Clinton go on for 4 years claiming the election was stolen from her. And more recently, this is the same media that let Stacy Abrams shoot her mouth off about a stolen election.
     
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    The left is bad...talking point...talking point....talking point.

    The media is bad...talking point...talking point...talking point.

    Yawn. Get some new material. Seen this post before several times in vaguely different forms.
     
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    It seems rather logical that when a Twitter Account (followed by 80+ Million People) that is Constantly Spewing Idiotic Conspiracies and things like "2+2=5"...Is Shut Down...

    ...That there will be LESS Brainless MORONIC Misinformation Contaminating the Internet...

    An Expected Consequence of Ridding Twitter of Trump's DELUSIONAL Brain Diarrhea.
     
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    I believe it seeing as how Pres Trump wasn't the only person/thing they were censoring. That Capitol incident has provided perfect cover for a great deal of suppression. Imagine if they had done the same with the Russian hoax myths/lies. We might not have had to endure 2 years of that circus.
     
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    So deciding what is news and what you get to see along with blatant liberal hypocrisy and double standards is just a talking point, eh? They have a live one with you, a true believer.
     
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    Thank god there wasn't a single mention of pee tapes or elections stolen from Clinton for the last 4 years.
     
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    Yes, you did read correctly.
     
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    This may be true but Republicans never let a good investigation slip by. Trump voters are so stubborn though, (none in this forum I am sure) they didn't even listen to the results of their own investigation as several instances of Russian collusion were actually listed in the report and they keep denying it.

    I can list the examples if you want as it seems you have not had time to research it on your own.
     
  13. AmericanNationalist

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    We were told big foot existed(Trump being a foreign agent of the Russians), what we were given instead were big foot's footprints and told that the footprints were the EVIDENCE of big foot existing. But that's not what we asked for, or what we were told they had.

    We were told, in big bold letters: That TRUMP IS A FOREIGN AGENT.

    Nothing to wit with Manafort, nothing to do with polling data. Nothing to do with meetings that didn't materialize any goods or proof of any actual collusion wit the election.

    In reality, the OIG report tells us that much of the information in Steele's fabrication was just that(a fabrication) and what's worse is that they knew in REAL TIME(read: 2017) that it was false information. They knew it was false, but they lied to the Courts, to the US Congress and to the American People(actually, slight clarification: They lied in public meetings, while being double-faced in PRIVATE meetings(see: Mccabe's testimony)

    They lied to us(and you). Point blank, naked, without so much as a tinge of remorse. And to me, it is the greatest national security we ever had(and the consequences are unfolding). You can now accuse the President of the United States, without evidence or proof of evidence and if it's even remotely believable, we can now have a special counsel.

    Trump might be the scumbag of the earth, but this national security issue is a big one to me.
     
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    It must be convenient to internalize the dossier as the center of the collusion universe (when it was just one of several documents submitted) and using its irregularities to simply ignore Trump asking Russia to hack Hillary's emails (coincidently days before they were released), pen his own son's lie about the Trump tower meeting, taking Putin's side on the global stage over our own intelligemce agencies, lying about a potential real estate deal in Moscow, all the other documents that were submitted with the dossier, or even that both parties admit that Papadopolous and his big mouth started the investigation, not the dossier.

    You also conveniently ignore the 10 examples of collusion in the Mueller report or that the Senate investigative team also acknowledged collusion.

    I could go on but your media outlets provided you with the red herring and nothing else matters to you now.
     
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    Silencing the opposition is quite effective. China does it all the time.
     
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    Yep. And silencing disinformation is what democracies do.
     
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    'Irregularities' is a cute word to use for deception, but we're not going to take the swerve. We're going to say it in more big bold letters: DECEPTION. FRAUD. This makes everything else they've said and done, also fraudulent. Now, any real serious investigator(you know, one who doesn't knowingly submit or fall for false evidence) would never take the suspect's words(the suspect in this case, being the several field agents). seriously.

    So yes, they wrote that Papadopolous's London meeting started it. But even though Peter Strzok wrote this on an FBI document, it wasn't the document submitted to the FISA Court. No, it was Steele's fabrication. So even though they can wave that paper and say "SEE", since I suspect them and know them to be liars, anything they say has about as much effect for me, as Trump's words do for them.

    Speaking of which, an interesting dilemma: Though people note Trump to be a notorious liar, in order to support the narrative of an investigation you take Trump at his word on a request for Russian hacking. It's really hilarious. Just like the investigation itself, it seems like one can't keep a straight and narrow path. What one would do, is try to look for evidence of a connection between the hackers and the Trump team(hint: There are none.)

    Or at least evidence of talks about hacking between the Trump team and the Russian(again, there are none. In fact, coffee boy ends up being a very exculpatory witness to the facade of a century) Do you know why even the House dropped it? Because you would be laughed out of a court!

    It....never..happened. At all. Meetings certainly did happen. What exactly they talked about? No one knows, but we do know what they didn't talk about: Hacking the DNC to obtain confidential documents.

    The fraudulent nature is besides the point, the point is that it destroyed an administration and we live in a future now where it's easily possible to destroy a future administration in much the same manner. Also, the Senate report is meaningless since it essentially will regurgitate the Mueller Report(did anyone really think it was a separate investigation? LOL. Yes, these senators will interview people and get different information lol.) Plus, considering that Mueller was going to indict anybody(and I literally mean anybody) with lying(except those who lied on their own behalf but that's a different topic) that inspired more truth telling and we're still left with the central conclusion:

    The fiction of an imagination, never at any point happened. Big Foot does not exist. We always knew big foot never existed. Well, rational minds knew big foot never existed, but a substantial portion of Americans believed(and you still believe) that big foot exists. That's the danger to the American Republic, moving forward.
     
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    Sorry to piggy back your response for this. Can anyone help me out by pointing me in the right direction for responding to posts.

    I want to answer portions of a post paragraph by paragraph but cant figure out how to make it so my responses are not part of the same quote. Essentially I want to make it "greenish colored" for the reply but my responses to appear in "White" bt the green colored parts.

    That probably makes no sense but if anyone can dissect what in am trying to convey I would appreciate any help.
     
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    I'll be happy to help. What you do is you use the quotation feature and then I like to click enter to double-space and type my reply below the quotation.

    Here's a pro-tip: Every quote button starts with the quote feature, so what I like to do is write [/quote] at the end of a paragraph and then type my response at the bottom.

    Example:
    Like so, I can quote the paragraph and write my response below.
     
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    Test

    Speaking of which, an interesting dilemma: Though people note Trump to be a notorious liar, in order to support the narrative of an investigation you take Trump at his word on a request for Russian hacking. It's really hilarious. Just like the investigation itself, it seems like one can't keep a straight and narrow path. What one would do, is try to look for evidence of a connection between the hackers and the Trump team(hint: There are none.)

    Or at least evidence of talks about hacking between the Trump team and the Russian(again, there are none. In fact, coffee boy ends up being a very exculpatory witness to the facade of a century) Do you know why even the House dropped it? Because you would be laughed out of a court!

    It....never..happened. At all. Meetings certainly did happen. What exactly they talked about? No one knows, but we do know what they didn't talk about: Hacking the DNC to obtain confidential documents.

    The fraudulent nature is besides the point, the point is that it destroyed an administration and we live in a future now where it's easily possible to destroy a future administration in much the same manner. Also, the Senate report is meaningless since it essentially will regurgitate the Mueller Report(did anyone really think it was a separate investigation? LOL. Yes, these senators will interview people and get different information lol.) Plus, considering that Mueller was going to indict anybody(and I literally mean anybody) with lying(except those who lied on their own behalf but that's a different topic) that inspired more truth telling and we're still left with the central conclusion:

    The fiction of an imagination, never at any point happened. Big Foot does not exist. We always knew big foot never existed. Well, rational minds knew big foot never existed, but a substantial portion of Americans believed(and you still believe) that big foot exists. That's the danger to the American Republic, moving forward.[/QUOTE]
    at the end of a paragraph and then type my response at the bottom.

    Example:


    Like so, I can quote the paragraph and write my response below.[/QUOTE]

    Perfect. Thank you for helping with that. Sorry for delayed response but I got busy at work so couldn't focus on it till later.

    Thanks again.
     
  21. AmericanNationalist

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    Pretty good, but this is how tedious the process is: While you can use the quotation action for the first fragment of a post(as it's obviously laid out). You have to write the [ quote ] and [ / quote] at the beginning and end of every such paragraph, not just the first paragraph.

    Having this little mini discussion makes me realize that super large messages like mine are very inconvenient to most lol. I'll try to be more concise in the future.
     
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