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[Oerets]

Twitter, going the National Enquirer Globe route it seems.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Twitter, going the National Enquirer Globe route it seems.

The Twitter Files are best understood as an egregious example of the very phenomenon it purports to condemn — that of unaccountable social media managers leveraging their platforms for partisan ends.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022...en-laptop.html

[finnbow]

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The Twitter Files are best understood as an egregious example of the very phenomenon it purports to condemn — that of unaccountable social media managers leveraging their platforms for partisan ends.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022...en-laptop.html

So, engaging in an exercise of transparency - which confirms practices that Twitter execs denied was happening and which conceivably could have impacted the 2020 election - is partisan?

If that type of disclosure is partisan, then yeah, I guess those engaging in transparency and trying to set the record straight are guilty as charged. Which means that folks who are spinning this in an effort to try to trash the folks involved and tarnish their efforts - like you - are guilty as charged as well.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

So, engaging in an exercise of transparency - which confirms practices that Twitter execs denied was happening and which conceivably could have impacted the 2020 election - is partisan?

If that type of disclosure is partisan, then yeah, I guess those engaging in transparency and trying to set the record straight are guilty as charged. Which means that folks who are spinning this in an effort to try to trash the folks involved and tarnish their efforts - like you - are guilty as charged as well.

If you truly think Musk is being transparent right now, you really need another source of news. The big reveal about Twitter moderation is that people who did not know about something until now assume not knowing about it meant that it was a huge secret.

The Twitter Files is a lesson in how you can report on the deliberately-curated internal goings-on of any decent sized organization, and if you make it seem like you are breaking news, you can make even the most mundane shit seem scandalous to a receptive, conspiracy-prone audience.

This will fade like the fart in the wind that it is. It is nothing other than the latest conservative contrived scandal du jour concocted to try to create some sort of moral equivalency to their own depraved behavior. I am not even a wee bit surprised that you have been taken in by it.

[Chicks]

But, her emails!!!!

Whell and his low information, Faux “News” watching buddies get sucked into the big con, every time. Ya think they’d eventually learn they’re being conned, but nope. Groundhogs Day.

[donquixote99]

The alleged crime, I hear, is 'the government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories.'

1. It's alleged they colluded. Collusion is basically voluntary cooperation, isn't it? It's not like the FBI marched in and ordered stuff quashed. As long as it's voluntary, any news organization can quash all day long. And they do. Freedom of the press includes freedom from having to publish what some source wants published.

2. The phrase "news stories" is really a false label when we're talking about Russian propaganda.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The alleged crime, I hear, is 'the government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories.'

1. It's alleged they colluded. Collusion is basically voluntary cooperation, isn't it? It's not like the FBI marched in and ordered stuff quashed. As long as it's voluntary, any news organization can quash all day long. And they do. Freedom of the press includes freedom from having to publish what some source wants published.

2. The phrase "news stories" is really a false label when we're talking about Russian propaganda.

What Twitter did doesn't even begin to compare to what David Pecker and the National Enquirer did for Trump in the 2016 election with his "catch and kill" tactics and what Fox News does every single day.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The Twitter Files in a nutshell:

Employees of a company made decisions about how best to enforce their rules resulting in fewer Nazis and less Russian propaganda and antivax disinformation.

The new management disagrees with those decisions and wants more Nazis, Russian propaganda and antivax disinformation while asserting that seeing Hunter's dick pics are a First Amendment right.

And that's about it.

Originally Posted by finnbow

If you truly think Musk is being transparent right now, you really need another source of news. The big reveal about Twitter moderation is that people who did not know about something until now assume not knowing about it meant that it was a huge secret.

The Twitter Files is a lesson in how you can report on the deliberately-curated internal goings-on of any decent sized organization, and if you make it seem like you are breaking news, you can make even the most mundane shit seem scandalous to a receptive, conspiracy-prone audience.

This will fade like the fart in the wind that it is. It is nothing other than the latest conservative contrived scandal du jour concocted to try to create some sort of moral equivalency to their own depraved behavior. I am not even a wee bit surprised that you have been taken in by it.

Essentially the 'Wingers are so desperate to find something/anything to tarnish President Biden with that they latch onto anything to try and do so. Anything to work againt the opposition rather than working with it.

[Chicks]

Is Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit a death blow for Murdoch and Faux "News"?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...uit-deposition

We can hope.

Rupert Murdoch rarely has to answer for the alternative realities presented by his hugely profitable US cable network, Fox News.

Its conspiratorial claims of a parade of cover ups from the 2012 Benghazi attack to the climate crisis and Covid-19 have been lapped up by Fox viewers and scorned by much of the rest of America, and then the world moved on. But on Tuesday, the 91-year-old billionaire media mogul will be obliged to answer difficult questions under oath about the inner workings of Fox.