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I certainly hear a lot more talk about the suppression than the actual story (excluding the non-stop spew from Trump, I tuned him out a long time ago), so Twitt
by rootusrootus 6y ago
I certainly hear a lot more talk about the suppression than the actual story (excluding the non-stop spew from Trump, I tuned him out a long time ago), so Twitterbook's attempts at suppression seem to have backfired. Taibbi may think it's under-reported, but even my non-tech acquaintances know about this scandal.
- hackinthebochs 6y agoAwareness of the story in the context of potential disinformation and twitter's attempt at stopping it is entirely different than awareness without this extra context. The downstream effects of the two scenario are likely to be very different.
- acituan 6y ago> even my non-tech acquaintances know about this scandal. Baudrillard talks about this regarding the Watergate scandal. The word scandal implies this is a one and done thing, you've seen the thing, and there is absolutely nothing else to see. This was an outlier. But was it? I think this one story itself is a canary in the coal mine. Extrapolate this to the long tail of stories for which their potential suppression won't make enough waves, and this is a much much bigger problem than what your non-tech acquaintances might hear. This concentrated of a narrative shaping power is certainly not unprecedented but is something we would normally associate with totalitarian regimes. And even then it would be easy for people to assume the suppression from state channels. What we have today is a much knife-edge mixture of truths, non-truths and missing truths, coming from hundreds to thousands of micro channels with people's faces attached to it. I think the grand total of its effects will indeed be unprecedented.
- googthrowaway42 6y agoYou hear a lot more talk about the suppression than the actual story because the news media you follow isn't covering the content of the story. There are emails being released constantly detailing various business dealings with CCP linked companies including undisclosed loans from Chinese banks that the Bidens continually roll forward.
- sagichmal 6y ago> because the news media you follow isn't covering the content of the story. That's not surprising, because it's manufactured and bogus.
- googthrowaway42 6y agoAre you claiming that the content that has been published is manufactured and bogus (aka fabricated)? I don't think anyone has actually claimed that. What makes you say this?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThat's just bad math. You're hearing more about the supression than the suppressed story? That suggests the suppression worked.