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Twitter’s open-source code has references to “Government Requested” influence
- rnd0 4y agoHold on! Hold on! Disinformation is something only the evil russians do!!!!11 Yeah, no big surprise here, at least not to anyone who's ever glanced at an American History book and knows what a COINTELPRO is... That said: >If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, ^^^I stopped reading right there^^^
- Imnimo 4y agoI don't understand what I'm expected to think of articles that are just "look at this variable name!" If you're not going to go through the trouble of finding out what the line of code actually does, what's the point?
- viraptor 4y agoThis fragment on its own is a bit silly to report on. How was it used? By which government? There's a huge difference between "government asked to boost a story about who to vote for" and "government asked to boost a tweet about evacuation plans for an incoming hurricane". The context is completely missing.