The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate
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This is good to see.
But, I have to wonder if this is more or less factual than the lies being exposed.
@Copper said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
This is good to see.
Two thoughts.
First of all, it's not just the Biden administration that was complicit with the censorship.
Secondly, it's amazing how, even with these revelations, people are not aware of how this happened - how ALL of this happened. At our "geezer lunch", two of the people had no idea of all this stuff.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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As someone who has never been on twitter (except from the ones I see here), is it possible that we are overstating its influence?
Most/many countries around the world had many of the same policies, etc as the US for COVID.
And in many countries, I think it would be difficult to find 10% of the population who used Twitter, or maybe even knew about it
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@Copper said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
This is good to see.
Two thoughts.
First of all, it's not just the Biden administration that was complicit with the censorship.
Secondly, it's amazing how, even with these revelations, people are not aware of how this happened - how ALL of this happened. At our "geezer lunch", two of the people had no idea of all this stuff.
@George-K said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
Secondly, it's amazing how, even with these revelations, people are not aware of how this happened - how ALL of this happened. At our "geezer lunch", two of the people had no idea of all this stuff.
Apropos what @Jolly said in another thread:
Y'all do realise that 90% of the country doesn't know this is happening or doesn't care...
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"Rigged the debate" is a pretty loaded term.
With the amount of misinformation being spewed during the pandemic, Twitter (and many other social media platforms) made consequential net-positive contribution to disseminate accurate, helpful information while censoring wrong/harmful misinformation. They didn't get it right in every case, but overall they got it right a lot more frequently than otherwise, thus a net-positive contribution to humanity.
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@George-K said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
Secondly, it's amazing how, even with these revelations, people are not aware of how this happened - how ALL of this happened. At our "geezer lunch", two of the people had no idea of all this stuff.
Apropos what @Jolly said in another thread:
Y'all do realise that 90% of the country doesn't know this is happening or doesn't care...
@Axtremus said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
@George-K said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
Secondly, it's amazing how, even with these revelations, people are not aware of how this happened - how ALL of this happened. At our "geezer lunch", two of the people had no idea of all this stuff.
Apropos what @Jolly said in another thread:
Y'all do realise that 90% of the country doesn't know this is happening or doesn't care...
I think the country cares more about Twitter than the House.
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@Axtremus said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
@George-K said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
Secondly, it's amazing how, even with these revelations, people are not aware of how this happened - how ALL of this happened. At our "geezer lunch", two of the people had no idea of all this stuff.
Apropos what @Jolly said in another thread:
Y'all do realise that 90% of the country doesn't know this is happening or doesn't care...
I think the country cares more about Twitter than the House.
@Jolly said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
I think the country cares more about Twitter than the House.
Being false aside(1), you say that as if it's something to be proud of.
(1) Fewer than a quarter of Americans use Twitter, substantially more vote to elect someone into the House.
Also, (2) you attempted to change the subjects. We are not comparing the House in general to Twitter in general, we are comparing the ongoing House Speakership contest to the "revelation" about Twitter's past censorship of COVID-related content specifically.
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@Jolly said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
I think the country cares more about Twitter than the House.
Being false aside(1), you say that as if it's something to be proud of.
(1) Fewer than a quarter of Americans use Twitter, substantially more vote to elect someone into the House.
Also, (2) you attempted to change the subjects. We are not comparing the House in general to Twitter in general, we are comparing the ongoing House Speakership contest to the "revelation" about Twitter's past censorship of COVID-related content specifically.
@Axtremus said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
the "revelation" about Twitter's past censorship
Why the "scare" quotes?
This is something suspected in the past, but never verified until early this year.
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@Axtremus said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
the "revelation" about Twitter's past censorship
Why the "scare" quotes?
This is something suspected in the past, but never verified until early this year.
@George-K said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
@Axtremus said in The Twitter files: How Twitter rigged the COVID debate:
the "revelation" about Twitter's past censorship
Why the "scare" quotes?
This is something suspected in the past, but never verified until early this year.
Doesn't fit the trope.
