Bullshit in Twitter and Politics
Tweets have become a political tool of expression, information, and argumentation. While in some cases this is intentional, in the interesting and controversial case of Donal Trump, tweets may just be bullshit. According to Harry Frankfurt, bullshit is everywhere. Everyday we slog through mountains of the epistemically disgusting stuff. But what does bullshit made digital look like? One potential example which receives quite a lot of air time may be President Donald Trump's Twitter feed. The Trump presidency and campaign are in and of themselves controversial, however those are not the subject of this piece. We will be focusing on the nature of content that comes from this source, how it qualifies as bullshit, and on the epistemic implications of this. This exploration will solely discuss the quality of this source of information, and how its content impacts others. The inconsistency that can be found in Donald Trump's tweets is certainly not new; as Stephen Colbert expre