# Twitter is going to start fact-checking Trump's tweets

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-is-going-to-start-fact-checking-trumps-tweets/854515>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-is-going-to-start-fact-checking-trumps-tweets/854515 "2020-05-26T23:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-is-going-to-start-fact-checking-trumps-tweets/854515/41 "2020-06-03T21:34:59Z")

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> [@Aspenglow](#):
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> He’d go [here](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/with-rallies-halted-and-tweets-fact-checked-trump-campaign-turns-to-smartphone-app-idUSKBN2391FT) (Reuters). In fact, he’s already there, along with millions of his supporters.

That’s just about the loosest interpretation of the word ‘news’ I have ever seen. If I were the Apple Store or Google Play, I’d be sorely tempted to place that in another category entirely - do they have one called ‘Fantasies and Lies’?

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-is-going-to-start-fact-checking-trumps-tweets/854515/42 "2020-06-03T21:43:51Z")

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Dupe.

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