The view that people want to consume truth, or that they should consume truth alone, is contestable Last week, Donald Trump was right about something.
In fact, the American president was right more than once. And Twitter made one gigantic mistake. This is what happened. Around the time Trump was tweeting a discredited conspiracy theory about the death of a woman, and her family was begging Twitter to remove the tweets, which it declined citing free speech, the social media giant did something extraordinary.
It flagged two of the president’s tweets that were far less spurious but concerned what the social media outfit seems to think is our most sacred idea—elections.