[dstola]

Have you ever seen White House getting fact-checked with democrats in power before the acquisition? If there is any bias going on its from people that have a bone to pick with Elon and his choices

The fact that my comment got flagged for some odd reason highlights the fact that people (including on HN) dont want to hear that Elon is making twitter better and less biased

[bena]

You do know Twitter hasn't existed for that long, right. It was founded in 2006.

The @POTUS account wasn't created until 2015.

Twitter in the political space is still relatively new. You're getting flagged for naked partisanship.

[dstola]

Twitter is not new though. It had sway in 2016 and 2012 elections with prominent personalities doing public relation on the platform. Saying its new to political space is pretty disingenuous

> You're getting flagged for naked partisanship

So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.

[bena]

This is the third president in the age of Twitter. It's use in the political space has been expanding. It has had to adapt.

And I would say it didn't really have much sway in the 2012 election. It existed, politicians reached out on it, but it wasn't as major a platform as it became.

Which is part of the reason why it took until 2015 for an account explicitly for the President to be created. They were still figuring it out. Platforms themself checking facts wasn't a thing until the last few years. Before it was organizations like Snopes, Politifact, etc.

> So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.

No one is saying that. But your partisanship is blatantly obvious and a bit tiring.