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I did as you asked. They seem like someone who covers the tech beat, and have as many positive stories about online influencers beating traditional media as the

• mutant_glofish 3y ago
  Did you find any positive stories about Twitter after Musk acquisition there? At the very least, there's this perspective that Twitter now has much less censorship now. A lot of people (but not a a lot of journalists) liked the changes to the verification system. Twitter is now paying (some) content creators. Do you think she'll ever fairly cover the positive side of these?
  • rsynnott 3y ago
    I mean, that would arguably be false balance. When a bad thing happens, it is reasonable to expect the coverage to generally be negative, because bad things are bad. For the vast majority of users, it'd be very difficult to put much of a good spin on the past 9 months or so at Twitter.
    • mutant_glofish 3y ago
      > For the vast majority of users, it'd be very difficult to put much of a good spin on the past 9 months or so at Twitter. I really think that "false balance" line is trite and overused. That's just your perspective. Even if most users agreed with you [1], the number of people who felt their voices are being silenced before is definitely quite significant. Giving zero attention to that fact is just plain bias. [1]: And the numbers are not clear on that. Despite all the ridiculous headlines, Twitter hasn't died yet.