"China appears to be making rapid advances in the development of Ben Garrison technology"
https://twitter.com/hikikomorphism/status/116247064336062054...
Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
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Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#12Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
Interesting - but many pro-HK bot accounts are still up and running. Indeed, there's a discord channel where many LIHKG (a 4chan-like HK site) users congregate to brigade Twitter and Reddit, and they've explicitly shared scripts and bots to manipulate or mass retweet messages in the channel.
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#13Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
How is this any different than the New York Times or the Nightly News? They control to a large extent the news people see.
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#14Many celebrities have also come out against the protests, such as Jackie Chan. I wonder if they were bought out or threatened by the government in order to do that.
I believe Chan has been openly pro-CCP/Beijing for quite some time.
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#15One could ask, "What would China do to WeChat if they showed sponsored content from the US promoting democratic reforms in HK?"
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#16Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
I’m going long $TWTR with this news, the quarterly report is going to be great
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#17Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
How is this any different than the New York Times or the Nightly News? They control to a large extent the news people see.
For one, social media companies are a different kind of entity in legal terms and have different legal responsibilities.
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#18Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
Maybe what you are after (I think...) is some form of code ethics like the code of Bordeaux for journalists [0] but then also applicable to tech corporations in Silicon Valley.
Many journalists and more important journalistic organizations take this seriously. Doesn’t mean there aren’t bad apples or mistakes. It just means there is a moral guideline to fall back on.
[0] https://www.ifj.org/who/rules-and-policy/global-charter-of-e...
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#19Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
Why would it be ok for the Chinese government to influence public opinion on Hong Kong, but Russia can't influence public opinion on presidential elections? Feels like it should be both or none.
Re: Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
#20Twitter just posted this statement: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati... And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn't seem right for a governm…
I hope they also put a stop to Russian and American propaganda... :-)