For the past four years we have been told that the 2016 US election results were illegitimate due to Russian interference. But as of today, questioning election results is against TOS.

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[–]AcceleratedWallops 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Seems like a CYA move to me.

  • Armed Trump supporters have been intimidating polling places;

  • Republicans have been talking about trying to make web platforms accountable for the content that their users post;

  • Ergo, if that does happen in the future, Twitter doesn't want to be seen as inciting violence by allowing this to proliferate.

[–]wecandobetter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Massive citation needed on that first point, bud. There have been isolated accounts of people at polling stations bearing arms. This does not systemic intimidation make. In fact, NPR was reporting on election day that despite fears, they were NOT seeing any evidence of voter intimidation or violent conflict nationwide.

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do you think NPR speaks the truth? They suck as bad as CNN but just different.

[–]bagano1 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

NPR is liberal as fuck.

However, that said, I looked at the numbers, at least in my state, and saw nothing that looked unusual.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

*neoliberal as fuck

[–]wecandobetter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes that's more accurate