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I'd love to believe that twitter could be a counterbalance, but it can also be an amplifier - any lie repeated long and loud enough becomes truth - particularly
by madaxe_again 11y ago
I'd love to believe that twitter could be a counterbalance, but it can also be an amplifier - any lie repeated long and loud enough becomes truth - particularly when twitter streams are "algorithmicly driven", and can therefore be filtered to give whatever sentiment more precedence.
Haa twitter stopped trump's rise?
- cheez 11y agoOr "of course Bill Cosby is guilty"
- GirlProgrammer 11y agoNo he isn't. People shouldn't be allowed to get people charged on "he said, she said" crimes 19 years after the fact.
- cheez 11y agoThat's my point. The amplifier of media, old and new, allows this kind of topic to be a thing, when by all ethical standards, it should not be.