[root_axis]

This problem is turtles all the way down, there is no trusted apolitical arbiter of the facts, you either believe twitter is making a best-effort attempt to curtail misinformation or you believe they're exercising a political agenda under the guise of curtailing misinformation.

[godelski]

The issue here is that the people that already believe in these sources already think the president is lying. On the other hand, people that think the president is telling the truth aren't going to believe those sources. So what does this do? Are there that many people on the fence? Because everyone I know in the middle already thinks this is laughable (Utah votes by mail and every Republican in CA I know votes from home!), those on the left think it is about voter suppression, and those on the right think it is about voter integrity.

While I don't disagree with the program, I'm also not sure what it solves.

[root_axis]

Twitter's rebuke has consequences in the larger culture war battle being fought online, it's an acknowledgement from twitter hq that they view Trump's behavior as a violation of twitter rules even though they are not willing to go so far as to ban or suspend him since he's the president. This is as much about PR as anything else since twitter has come under increased pressure to take some kind of action with regard to Trump's conduct on the site.