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Amplifying right wing extremists is an improvement?

• that_guy_iain 4y ago
  Has he? Is there evidence of this? I believe when the former head it safety left he said they were removing far more stuff than before. For example, I heard there were some child porn hashtags that got wiped out. I haven’t seen any more right wing extremists.
  • kevviiinn 4y ago
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-twitter-force-fed-extremism-feeds_n_638a7999e4b0214ec97f5eab https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-twitter-force-fed-e... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-twitter-racist-posts/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-tw... That's on top of Twitter previously finding that right Wong voices were already amplified far more than those on the left, which was during the peak of the right wing complaints of being silenced https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-politicalcontent https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...
    • that_guy_iain 4y ago
      I don’t see any proof. I see people saying it’s happening. Seems very much like narrative that people want to believe.