Jack Dorsey, de Twitter, contraataca a Zuckerberg y defiende la verificación de los tuits de Trump

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey fired back at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who criticized the tech giant's decision to fact-check President Trump's tweets about mail-in voting.

In a preview clip of his interview with Fox News' Dana Perino, Zuckerberg weighed in on the escalating dustup between Trump and Twitter. The issue at hand was the labeling of the president's tweets sounding the alarm on potential voter fraud in the upcoming election, pointing to "fact checkers" that say there is "no evidence" that expanded, nationwide mail-in voting would increase fraud risks. Twitter's own analysis was later scrutinized by critics.

"We have a different policy than, I think, Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told "The Daily Briefing" in an interview scheduled to air in full on Thursday.

"I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," he added. "Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that."

In a late-night Twitter thread, Dorsey refuted Zuckerberg's comments while defending Twitter's "Head of Site Integrity" Yoel Roth after his hyper-partisan anti-Trump tweets were discovered in the wake of the politically-charged debate over Trump's tweets.

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"Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me," Dorsey began. "Please leave our employees out of this. We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make."

He continued, "This does not make us an 'arbiter of truth.' Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves. More transparency from us is critical so folks can clearly see the why behind our actions."

Citing the platform's "Civic Integrity Policy," Dorsey explained that Trump's tweets "may mislead people into thinking they don’t need to register to get a ballot (only registered voters receive ballots)," adding that "We’re updating the link on @realDonaldTrump’s tweet to make this more clear."

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The link, which relies on The Washington Post and CNN as "fact-checkers," was updated with tweets from the "Twitter Safety" account, which read, "We added a label to two @realDonaldTrump Tweets about California’s vote-by-mail plans as part of our efforts to enforce our civic integrity policy. We believe those Tweets could confuse voters about what they need to do to receive a ballot and participate in the election process," also adding, "We also wanted to provide additional context and conversation with regard to voter fraud and mail-in ballots. We have a range of remediations, and in some cases we add labels that link to more context."

Dorsey's tweets were criticized by conservatives, slamming him for not taking stronger action against Chinese propaganda that has spread on the platform during the coronavirus outbreak.

"Thanks for the clarification @jack. "This makes YOU accountable for allowing the Chinese Communist Party to abuse this site with misinformation & propaganda spread across the globe - all while the CCP bans and suppresses their own people from using Twitter!" Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. reacted.

Trump is set to unveil an executive action in response to Twitter's action on Thursday. The president accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 election and stifling free speech, though critics say a private company's decisions over what it allows on its platform does not violate First Amendment rights.

Twitter's new warning label was issued even though a Twitter spokesperson acknowledged to Fox News that Trump's tweet had not broken any of the platform's rules, and even though several experts have called mail-in balloting an invitation to widespread fraud.

"Los votos por correo siguen siendo la mayor fuente de fraude electoral potencial", rezaba la conclusión de un informe bipartidista de 2005 elaborado por la Comisión para la Reforma Electoral Federal, presidida por el ex presidente Jimmy Carter y el ex secretario de Estado James Baker.

The warning label prompted conservatives to again condemn Twitter for what they have called its apparent left-wing bias: Just two months ago, Twitter flagged a video uploaded by the Trump campaign as "manipulated media," only to rebuff the campaign's efforts to have the platform flag a similar video uploaded by the Biden team.

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"Siempre supimos que Silicon Valley haría todo lo posible para obstruir e interferir en la transmisión del mensaje del presidente Trump a los votantes", declaró Brad Parscale, director de la campaña Trump 2020. "Asociarse con los sesgados 'verificadores de hechos' de los medios de noticias falsas es sólo una cortina de humo que Twitter está utilizando para tratar de dar una falsa credibilidad a sus evidentes tácticas políticas. Hay muchas razones por las que la campaña de Trump retiró toda nuestra publicidad de Twitter hace meses, y su clara parcialidad política es una de ellas."

"Los 'verificadores de hechos' de Twitter realmente apestan", escribió Dan Bongino, colaborador de Fox News . Enlazó con un artículo de 2012 en The New York Times titulado "Error y fraude en el aumento del voto por correo". El artículo afirma que "los votos emitidos por correo tienen menos probabilidades de ser contados, más probabilidades de verse comprometidos y más probabilidades de ser impugnados que los emitidos en una cabina de votación, según muestran las estadísticas."

Fox News' Gregg Re and Yael Haron contributed to this report.