Last week, Twitter crossed the digital Rubicon. For the very first time, the social media giant flagged a tweet from @realdonaldtrump with an accusatory blue exclamation point “!” to warn credulous readers that the offending Trump tweet was misleading. The platform helpfully directed its tender Twitter wards to its own logo-littered blog for the Twitter-approved truth.
But no sooner had Twitter waded into the notoriously slippery world of political fact checking, enterprising internet sleuths discovered that Twitter’s “Head of Site Integrity,” Yoel Roth, is a virulent and vocal foe of President Donald Trump, Republicans, and middle America.
Roth desc ...