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I don't really see Twitter banning users for "incorrect" political speech. Moreover, their Community Notes work very well for fact-checking.
by eterevsky 3y ago
I don't really see Twitter banning users for "incorrect" political speech. Moreover, their Community Notes work very well for fact-checking.
- fl0id 3y agoIf Elmo doesn’t like it? Definitely
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- adionionio 3y agoThey have absolutely tried to censor wrongthink. I don't know if the boss has had users banned, but he has clearly demanded interference. Here are the two most famous examples: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter... https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-... EDIT: A lot has happened in Twit-land over the last year, so I forgot all about the ElonJet affair. Twitter has banned people to try to suppress news the owner didn't like. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/business/media/elon-musk-twitter-journalist-suspension.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/business/media/elon-musk-... Here is the current tracker, by the way. https://mastodon.social/@elonjet https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
- eterevsky 3y agoI disagree with Twitter's decision on the first count and don't have a good opinion about the second. However these examples fall far short of what other social media companies are doing. On YouTube a year ago you could be banned for suggesting that Covid could started as a lab leak.
- pjc50 3y agoOne of the Twitter owners has people executed for political speech. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/saudi-arabian-academic-on-death-row-for-using-twitter-and-whatsapp https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/saudi-arabian-...