"Fake news on social media is the crisis we’re all ignoring – trust me, I worked for Twitter."
This is an actual headline for an article by former Twitter staffer Marc Burrows, lamenting the fact that @elonmusk’s 𝕏 no longer collaborates with the Censorship Industrial Complex to police speech.
Must be election season. Yep:
"With billions of people around the world going to the polls this year, making sure voters have access to verfied, true information is critical. We cannot afford to disregard the importance of keeping a lid on the lies."
He can’t be talking about the lies like the Dirty 51 letter, right? Nope.
"We worked with Reuters and the Associated Press to debunk rapidly growing and unreliable stories. We coined the term “pre-bunk” for identifying likely misinformation before it spread. Misleading posts were labelled once they reached a certain influence threshold.
We all knew this was mission critical, because Twitter punches above its weight in terms of influence on the news agenda and public conversation – that’s why Musk became so invested. We all wanted to make it safer. Better. A force for good."
A force for good. By working with corrupt legacy media and the US govt to suppress, censor, and ban information that was inconvenient or damaging to their preferred candidates and false narratives.
This piece may as well have been written by US intelligence agencies. Maybe it was.
Full piece linked in thread. Must be read in full to be believed.
WONDER WHO WAS BEHIND THIS ARTICLE. IS THAT CIRCUS MUSIC PLAYING?
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1800153955030155554