Here's simple fact check. Twitter is not _the_ place where political discourse happens. You're discussing politics on HN right now.

It's the place that regularly gets quoted on major networks and newspapers. This is a minority website with nowhere near as much impact.

That still doesn't make it _the_ place for political discourse. Reddit gets quoted quite often. Tons of politicians do AMA on Reddit and Facebook. Just because Trump is on Twitter doesn't make it special.

That's not how these kinds of "facts" work. If someone tried to use this during some kind of proceeding the court will determine this. (Using a jury or not, expert witnesses or not, doesn't matter.)

Usually fact checking "services" like snopes.com, politifact, or WaPo with the pinocchio heads, have a consistent model about what they are willing to touch, how they approach it, and how they determine factualness, etc.

Just throwing out that Twitter is or isn't _the_ platform makes no sense.

Every major public figure is on Twitter. That is the difference. Reddit is still small fry.