New York Times public editor: the Times corrects factual errors. What about bigger controversies?

Posted on AllSides June 23rd, 2020
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RECENTLY, THERE HAS BEEN A FAIR AMOUNT of attention given to the fact-checking responsibilities of social media: Facebook has resisted calls to be an arbiter of fact when it comes to President Trump’s frequent lies (even in the face of protests by its own employees), but Snap has stopped promoting Trump’s Snapchat account because it “incite[s] racial violence and injustice.” Twitter made waves when it appended a label to (but otherwise left up) a Trump tweet that referenced shooting looters but took no action against another Trump tweet which baselessly...

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