FaithHopeLoveTruth

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Policy and guidelines

We use sources meeting Wikipedia:Rs for labels like false. We avoid "claims" except when attributing a quote, etc. because it isn't neutral. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch. Doug Weller talk 10:57, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

I'm not seeing the difference between "echo chamber" and "verifiable by reliable sources." Who can clarify? And is "Truth" still not a Wikipedia standard? Seems conspiratorial.FaithHopeLoveTruth (talk) 20:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Your last comment sounds a bit paranoid. No, it would be nice to have the truth but that’s not always or even often possible outside of mathematics. So we base our articles on reliably published, ie mainstream, sources and try to show where there are disputes. Doug Weller talk 21:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Given the revelations that the FBI was paying Twitter to suppress news stories that proved to be completely true, I do not believe it is possible to have any meaningful standard of "reliable source." Therefore, we should use plain English as much as possible to determine "biased" vs. "neutral point of view." I can assure you that there are millions of people who believe that saying "false claims" is more neutral than "claims" is completely laughable, and makes Wikipedia a bad joke. FaithHopeLoveTruth (talk) 06:03, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Lol. Watching Musk's tweets are you? Anyway, that is a complete misrepresentation of the facts. Eg #Twitter's former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker was told in one email shared by independent journalist Michael Shellenberger that the company has collected $3,415,323 from the FBI.

"Jim, FYI, in 2019 SCALE instituted a reimbursement program for our legal process response from the FBI. Prior to the start of the program, Twitter chose not to collect under this statutory right of reimbursement for the time spent processing requests from the FBI," a former Twitter employee wrote. "I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019! This money is used by LP for things like the TTR and other LE-related projects (LE training, tooling, etc.)."

The FBI official didn't deny the multimillion-dollar payment to Twitter, but said it was a "reimbursement" for the "reasonable costs and expenses associated with their response to a legal process…for complying with legal requests, and a standard procedure."#

See also [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/twitter-fbi-story-relies-far-more-insinuation-than-evidence/].

In any case, this is pointless, our policies and guidelines aren't going to change because you don't like them. Doug Weller talk 07:59, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

I was hoping they would change because they suck.FaithHopeLoveTruth (talk) 03:56, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

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• TPA revoked.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 12 April 2023 (UTC)