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How are you supposed to trust a team to moderate election information a-politically? It's no secret that this team had a bias, fully displaying its faults. To m
by brink 4y ago
How are you supposed to trust a team to moderate election information a-politically? It's no secret that this team had a bias, fully displaying its faults. To me, this is a reasonable move.
- MBCook 4y agoPlenty of things are flat out facts and those can be moderated objectively. When do polls open? When do they close? What IDs do you need to vote? Can you register when you vote? Where are polling places? Did channel X actually call a race? Is the number of votes that voted actually the number the state offices released? Is voting day Tuesday or Wednesday? Not everything is grey and interpretation based. I’m not looking for them to call if Biden is a good president or Herschel Walker is qualified. Just stop people from committing voter suppression (which is illegal anyway) with demonstrably false facts.
- sacrosancty 4y ago
- commandlinefan 4y ago> facts and those can be moderated objectively. That’s true. I don’t trust twitters moderation team to limit themselves to those facts even a teeny, tiny bit.
- slantedview 4y agoThrowing the baby out with the bathwater, which is what happened here, will result in misinformation about these basic things being used to suppress votes from being cast.
- remarkEon 4y agoThis sentiment, and this thread, is bordering on unintelligible. Is Twitter such critical election infrastructure now that if it’s trending information is not perfect the provenance of the election is now in question? If so, how long has Twitter been this important? Would elections function without it? How much “misinformation” is enough for the election to be suspect? Is this concern simply limited to what’s on Twitter itself and not, ya know, out in the citizenry?
- SauciestGNU 4y agoIt's bad to amplify election disinformation. Its pensiveness enhances its efficacy and it doesn't need to be particularly widespread to be impactful. Georgia was decided by under 12000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.
- encryptluks2 4y agoRight.. I mean this is the same moderation team that still believes that Trump didn't win the 2020 election and posted facts saying he didn't. How can they be unbiased? Just kidding.. people here are just upset that facts hurt their preferred candidate in 2020.
- molotovh 4y agoThis is crazy, I know, but if you're not sure about objective facts like "when the polls are open" or "who is running for each position", the best course of action would be to consult your local elections board. If you're in the US, your local elections board almost certainly has a .gov website and multiple channels by which you can obtain this information, and it will be much more trustworthy than rather than random people on Twitter (or Facebook, or TikTok, or literally any social media channel, for that matter).
- rockinghigh 4y agoA few ways that come to mind: 1) detect accounts funded by overseas groups to interfere and spread hate, 2) display fact check warnings when sharing links to debunked conspiracy theories, 3) put checks in place to reduce harassment of elected officials and candidates.