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An update on our continuity strategy during Covid-19
- henriquez 7y agoI thought this was going to be about how they keep their data center operations running. But no, it’s actually mass censorship run by robots! They say that in order to fight disinformation they’ll delete tweets that don’t fully go along with talking points from public health officials. But with so many public officials giving conflicting or politically-motivated information, this is clearly problematic to enforce at scale. It will certainly end up as more arbitrary and capricious account deletions over ideology, per usual. Twitter chose to respond to the crisis with authoritarianism and mass censorship. But they are in no position to even take an authoritative position. If they’re this concerned about disinformation a more ethical approach would be to shut down.