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To be clear: I am not disagreeing that slickly-produced videos are propaganda. Or that tweets in support of Ukraine's efforts / donations / etc are "supporting
by lloydjones 4y ago
To be clear: I am not disagreeing that slickly-produced videos are propaganda.
Or that tweets in support of Ukraine's efforts / donations / etc are "supporting the war".
I am, rather, disputing the "both sides"-type thinking of the person I replied to, who seems to imply that stopping ALL talk of war (regardless of whom it is in support of) is desirable.
- stametseater 4y ago> stopping ALL talk of war (regardless of whom it is in support of) is desirable. It's a private platform isn't it? By conventional logic, twitter has the right to decide what sort of content they promote. If a fashion magazine or a twitting website decide they don't want to cover a war, that is a perfectly valid business decision. It doesn't really matter anyway. Twitter isn't as important as the media says it is. Only a small fraction of the population actually use it, but it just happens that this small fraction includes people in the media, so they think it's much more important than it actually is and give it undo coverage. And no, I don't think that makes twitter actually important in a round-about way, because when most people see "somebody tweeted something" articles they roll their eyes at the media scrapping the bottom of the barrel for news. The media is blind to their twitter bias, but most others cringe. If Elon Musk ends up running twitter straight into the ground, nothing of value will be lost.