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[quote=jsteele]There are so many amateurish errors or misinformation contained in Taibbi's tweets tonight. Two examples:

First, he shows a tweet by Trump, saying that voting by mail is a fraud so you shouldn't vote by mail. Twitter gives this a label including a link to learn more about voting. Then, he shows a tweet by a Democratic guy (I never heard of him) saying there is one week until the election so vote in person, not by mail because it might not get there in time. Twitter decides this guy is not discouraging voting but pointing to a real issue that the mail is slow. Taibbi thinks these two examples are the same and Twitter is showing a double standard.

Second, another guy says to vote in person because it is close to the election and the Supreme Court restricted late mail ballots. He has a hashtag "#SteelOurVotes". A Twitter moderator escalates the tweet to Yoel Roth and another guy. Taibbi implies that the other guy said the hashtag was "understandable". In reality, Roth and the other guy say they don't see any rule violation and the first guy says, "thanks, I was concerned about the hashtag." The other guy says, "Ah, that's understandable". He is saying the first guy's concern is understandable, not that the hashtag is understandable.
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