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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
Can you post a quick breakdown of what is actually being revealed? I'm honestly shocked that anyone at least a bit technically literate didn't understand the types of tools social media companies use. Elon and others seem to be pi
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
It isn't an unreasonable leap for people in our position with very limited information, but it is still just a guess. It's a shame that both of these reporters, with eyes inside the machine, seem to want to HINT that there is syst
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
The current releases haven't established anything even close to that. Can you cite which tweet(s) you are referring to? Honestly, if they do have evidence of something in that ballpark, these two have done a terrible job exposing it.
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
Sure, there was human involvement. Seems irrelevant to the comment I was responding to - Twitter did not hide that they were deranking some Tweets and there doesn't seem to be any difference between their current policy 'revealed&
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
That tweet is referencing this[0] blog post. > We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
Am I right in believing that the only supporting evidence (and this is very weak evidence) for this claim in the two parts so far is that Twitter employees donated more money to Democrats than Republicans? Has there been any other evidence
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
Here is an announcement from 2018[0]: >“It’s shaping up to be one of the highest-impact things that we’ve done,” the chief executive, Jack Dorsey ,said of the update, which will change how tweets appear in search results or conversations
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
Is this information new (as of #27)? Doesn't every social media platform augment reach for troublemakers? For example, here is Elon's new policy[0]: >New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. >Negati
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by veec_cas_tant 4y ago
Had to finally make an account just to respond to a subsection of this comment. >I wish people would stop treating suicide as a mental illness... like it’s somehow wrong and an intervention is needed. >When someone wants to go, let th