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What? They ban most actual right-wing sources. What's left is crap like Fox news. They can't be biased towards stuff they ban. They are biased towards controll

What? They ban most actual right-wing sources. What's left is crap like Fox news. They can't be biased towards stuff they ban. They are biased towards controlled opposition, which makes people feel warm and fuzzy. Big difference.

phailhaus 4y ago
Read the article, can't argue with numbers. Twitter biases towards recommending right-wing sources. Your personal experience will differ because everyone is placed in their own echo chamber.
- NDizzle 4y ago
  Sure I can. All the right-wing sources I followed on twitter were banned. Therefore I didn't get ANY content sent to me. How is that a bias FOR right-wing sources?
  - phailhaus 4y ago
    This is how, straight from the article: > According to a 27-page research document, Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany. Under the research, a value of 0% meant tweets reached the same number of users on the algorithm-tailored timeline as on its chronological counterpart, whereas a value of 100% meant tweets achieved double the reach. There are crazy left-wing sources that are also banned, are you going to use that as "proof" that Twitter is biased against the left? You're cherrypicking.
    - NDizzle 4y ago
      Can you list left wing sources that are banned from twitter? I'm struggling here. The KKK, maybe?
pmoriarty 4y ago
"They ban most actual right-wing sources. What's left is crap like Fox news." What do you consider an "actual right-wing source" if not Fox News?
- norwalkbear 4y ago
  Get outside your filter bubble
- NDizzle 4y ago
  Alex Jones. Gavin McInnis. James O'Keefe. Breitbart, which is banned 2/3rds of the time. Fox News is for your 65+ year old uncle. It's harmless, controlled opposition. Look at the Jan 6th coverage. It exists for the left to point at and say, "see, there it is! Right wing bias!" - for one example.
  - pmoriarty 4y ago
    I'm surprised you didn't mention the KKK or Stormfront. It'll be interesting to see if Twitter gives them a megaphone too.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
  Right? If their "reporting" was so egregious that they got banned, I'd question how accurate their "news" was.
mrguyorama 4y ago
If you think the most popular singular news source, with all it's own personalities, funding, controlling executives, and consistent for decades opinions is "controlled opposition", I just don't know what to tell you anymore. Maybe you're just wrong?

phailhaus 4y ago

Read the article, can't argue with numbers. Twitter biases towards recommending right-wing sources. Your personal experience will differ because everyone is placed in their own echo chamber.

NDizzle 4y ago
Sure I can. All the right-wing sources I followed on twitter were banned. Therefore I didn't get ANY content sent to me. How is that a bias FOR right-wing sources?
- phailhaus 4y ago
  This is how, straight from the article: > According to a 27-page research document, Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany. Under the research, a value of 0% meant tweets reached the same number of users on the algorithm-tailored timeline as on its chronological counterpart, whereas a value of 100% meant tweets achieved double the reach. There are crazy left-wing sources that are also banned, are you going to use that as "proof" that Twitter is biased against the left? You're cherrypicking.
  - NDizzle 4y ago
    Can you list left wing sources that are banned from twitter? I'm struggling here. The KKK, maybe?

pmoriarty 4y ago

"They ban most actual right-wing sources. What's left is crap like Fox news." What do you consider an "actual right-wing source" if not Fox News?

norwalkbear 4y ago
Get outside your filter bubble
NDizzle 4y ago
Alex Jones. Gavin McInnis. James O'Keefe. Breitbart, which is banned 2/3rds of the time. Fox News is for your 65+ year old uncle. It's harmless, controlled opposition. Look at the Jan 6th coverage. It exists for the left to point at and say, "see, there it is! Right wing bias!" - for one example.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  I'm surprised you didn't mention the KKK or Stormfront. It'll be interesting to see if Twitter gives them a megaphone too.
Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
Right? If their "reporting" was so egregious that they got banned, I'd question how accurate their "news" was.

mrguyorama 4y ago

If you think the most popular singular news source, with all it's own personalities, funding, controlling executives, and consistent for decades opinions is "controlled opposition", I just don't know what to tell you anymore. Maybe you're just wrong?