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How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by est »

refurb wrote: post #7

Great article to read if you want to know how the "sausage was made" at Twitter. I think most people knew it was an absolute dumpster fire, but it's even worse than that. As expected, the folks doing the policing of "disinformation" were entirely unqualified for the role (I love the banning of the Harvard School of Medicine epidemiologist who said "vaccines are for people at risk" - apparently the folks at Twitter kn…

> folks doing the policing of "disinformation" were entirely unqualified for the role

Sounds like how Stackoverflow works. 5 people have no clue about the technical question decides to close it entirely.

Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by andrew_ »

refurb wrote: post #7

Great article to read if you want to know how the "sausage was made" at Twitter. I think most people knew it was an absolute dumpster fire, but it's even worse than that. As expected, the folks doing the policing of "disinformation" were entirely unqualified for the role (I love the banning of the Harvard School of Medicine epidemiologist who said "vaccines are for people at risk" - apparently the folks at Twitter kn…

It's what many of us thought was going on based on what we could see. It's nice to have it out in the open and verify/confirm what some of us were told was plain old paranoia.

Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by tayo42 »

There's no debate happening on Twitter. It's just for people to make a scene and try to get clout. Why are these random people not participating in actual research?or writers for real publications? Instead they're posting hot take one liners with no repercussion if they are incorrect. It's misleading to make it appear like there are two equal sides like this thing is trying to make it look like.

Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by jakear »

mc32 wrote: post #10
nullish_signal wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dream of a United States with 0 Ads for Prescription Medicine, and the end of "Ask your Doctor about [Brand]"

Yeah so we took out alcohol advertising and replaced it with a different kind of evil.

Alcohol ads are definitely still a thing. Perhaps you’re thinking of tobacco?

Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by CharlesW »

> "Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines."

Obviously, Twitter should not have followed CDC guidelines. They should have created their own healthcare group in charge of evaluating which CDC guidelines coming out of the Trump and Biden administrations were correct and which were not, based on blue-check user surveys.

Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by bmarquez »

tayo42 wrote: post #14

There's no debate happening on Twitter. It's just for people to make a scene and try to get clout. Why are these random people not participating in actual research?or writers for real publications? Instead they're posting hot take one liners with no repercussion if they are incorrect. It's misleading to make it appear like there are two equal sides like this thing is trying to make it look like.

> Why are these random people not participating in actual research?or writers for real publications?

The author of the article wrote for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Wired. Are those not real publications?

Re: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

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Post by gsatic »

refurb wrote: post #7

Great article to read if you want to know how the "sausage was made" at Twitter. I think most people knew it was an absolute dumpster fire, but it's even worse than that. As expected, the folks doing the policing of "disinformation" were entirely unqualified for the role (I love the banning of the Harvard School of Medicine epidemiologist who said "vaccines are for people at risk" - apparently the folks at Twitter kn…

Hacker ethos is to solve problems not rant, rave and cry about them and hope grandma shows up with a solution.
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