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>censorship There you go using that word again. I'd like to re-iterate that no longer accepting advertisements != censoring RT journalism.
by eduren 9y ago
>censorship
There you go using that word again. I'd like to re-iterate that no longer accepting advertisements != censoring RT journalism.
- grandalf 9y agoNYT, CNN, etc. all use viral clickbait strategies. Using such strategies, one needs to "seed" the content on social media. Ads are an easy way to do this. An increasing number of people get their news from social media, making the process of "seeding" very important to the publication process. Arguably a news org can't exist without this process working. They have to have someone on staff who can write the clickbait headline, and they have to have someone on staff who can place the ads on social media to seed the content. By breaking RT's ability to do this, Twitter is exerting highly targeted editorial control over the content that hits its algorithmic feeds. Shameful stuff.