{"id":14060,"date":"2020-06-24T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-time-for-twitter-to-fact-check-anonymous-claims-against-celebrities\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:26:00","slug":"its-time-for-twitter-to-fact-check-anonymous-claims-against-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-for-twitter-to-fact-check-anonymous-claims-against-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s time for Twitter to fact-check anonymous claims against celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#It\u2019s time for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to fact-check anonymous claims against celebrities<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Just a few weeks ago, Twitter announced that President Trump, one of the platform\u2019s most prolific users, could no longer tweet without policing. It was past time to fact-check his tweets, said the company, given their potential for real-life damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have the tools in place to label content that may contain misleading claims that could cause offline harm,\u201d Twitter spokesperson Katie Rosborough told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019re going to anonymously accuse random celebrities of rape with little to no evidence, Twitter says: Have at it.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, Justin Bieber, Ansel Elgort and four cast members of the CW\u2019s \u201cRiverdale\u201d have all been accused on social media of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Those tweets are usually pushed further along by the swift tail winds of #MeToo, which is predicated on the need to \u201cbelieve all women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no longer considered fair or fashionable to pause for a moment and wonder how likely it is, really, that a coven of sexual predators are masquerading as CW stars, akin to the satanists of \u201cRosemary\u2019s Baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, three users identified as Victoria, Tasha and Allison tweeted individual claims of sexual assault against \u201cRiverdale\u201d stars Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart, KJ Apa and Vanessa Morgan. Guess what. It didn\u2019t take long for an online sleuth to determine that Victoria, Tasha and Allison all shared the same IP address and all lived in the same location in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Why couldn\u2019t Twitter do the same? Where are those \u201ctools in place\u201d to \u201cprevent off-line harm\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6O37ID6JCE8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, someone identifying themselves only as Danielle \u2014 and think about it, \u201cDanielle\u201d could be a 40-year-old man or a rival pop star or a bot \u2014 took to Twitter with a claim that Bieber sexually assaulted her on March 9, 2014, at the Four Seasons in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Within 48 hours, Bieber brought the receipts, literally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRumors are rumors,\u201d Bieber tweeted, \u201cbut sexual abuse is something I don\u2019t take lightly. I wanted to speak out right away, but out of respect to so many victims who deal with these issues daily I wanted to make sure I gathered the facts before I made any statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those facts included contemporaneous <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> reports of Bieber\u2019s whereabouts in Austin \u2014 he was there for the high-profile South by Southwest festival \u2014 plus time-stamped photos of himself with then-girlfriend Selena Gomez; receipts proving he and his entourage stayed at an Airbnb and then the Westin Hotel, not the Four Seasons; and a confirmation from the Four Seasons regional manager that Bieber never set foot on the property on the dates in question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome all press to inquire with them if needed or wanted,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanielle\u201d took down her tweets and vanished into the digital netherworld.<\/p>\n<p>It was particularly bracing to see the real-time response of Bieber and his team, as if they knew such an accusation was only a matter of time. I say that not to imply anything nefarious \u2014 only to acknowledge that right now, we are in the throes of a cultural, sociological and tech-driven revolution that can ruin people with a keystroke. \u201cGoing viral\u201d is almost always considered a good thing, but think about its etymology: viruses, viral loads, virulence \u2014 toxicity, degradation, lethality.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBrc56ABpWn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bieber knew that an accusation like this, even an anonymous one, even with no credible evidence, can spread through the Twitterverse like wildfire and damage him permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that a 26-year-old pop star gets this but a global Big Tech company doesn\u2019t? Does Jack Dorsey really expect us to believe that Twitter can\u2019t do better?<\/p>\n<p>Elgort\u2019s case isn\u2019t as black-and-white but should alarm us. Again, we have a user going only by a first name, Gabby, taking to Twitter and accusing Elgort of . . . really, it\u2019s unclear. She says they met when she was 17 and \u201che was in his 20s\u201d and that he took her virginity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of asking me if I wanted to stop having sex knowing it was my first time and I was sobbing in pain and I didn\u2019t want to do it the only words that came out of his mouth were \u2018We need to break you in.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gabby doesn\u2019t say that she ever told Elgort to stop, though, and that\u2019s important. For his part, Elgort maintains that the relationship with Gabby was consensual but says he treated her poorly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stopped responding to her, which is an immature and cruel thing to do,\u201d he wrote in an Instagram post. \u201cI cannot claim to understand Gabby\u2019s feelings, but her de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion of events is simply not what happened. I have never and would never assault anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gabby has since deleted her tweets.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason so many of these flimsy rape and sexual assault accusations materialize on Twitter \u2014 no legitimate news outlet would ever publish them. Big Tech knows this. They have abdicated their responsibility for far too long, putting profits over human cost.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing their fact-check of Trump, Twitter said it was COVID-19 that did it. 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It was past time to fact-check his tweets, said the company, given their potential for real-life damage. \u201cWe now have the tools&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26717],"class_list":["post-14060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-its-time-for-twitter-to-fact-check-anonymous-claims-against-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}