I think suspicion is off the charts that this is bullshit.
Like I say below, every day I read the NYT, WSJ, and watch the PBS NewsHour. Then only place I’ve heard about any of this is...here on this board, because I don’t watch FOX or read the NY Post.
The NYT is transparently anti-Trump, but the NewsHour and certainly the WSJ are not. So your question is just as appropriate for them as it is for Twitter. Obviously, they are all seeing the same thing.
We know Twitter is retreating more from the “anything goes, readers are on their own” biz model than Facebook is. Really, Facebook gives it all the same opportunities for “going viral” that Twitter would. You can decide which of these philosophies you prefer, and stop using one, and only use the other. In that sense, the market can sort this out. Possibly, in the end, as such prominent platforms are becoming the dominant curators of news, they may lose some of the protections that other news distributors don’t have. I’m open to that possibility.
But these are still early days of social media in the world. If you have Netflix, watch “The Great Hack”. Take a look at the way social media has been weaponized by propagandists, and then tell me that social media platforms shouldn’t be grappling with this.
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Posted: 10/15/2020 at 12:06PM