It is a political post for sure. And your TLDR is basically Russian propaganda.Well, it is well-documented that the Hunter Biden story was blocked by Twitter when it broke. That's one substantial example, with far-reaching political ramifications, that I can think of. Twitter (and Facebook) flagged and suppressed that story's distribution (right before an election) as false info. Since that happened 2 years ago, it's come 180 degrees and even CNN and MSNBC have reported that the laptop story was 100% valid, the laptop was Hunter Biden's, had all kinds of horrible info on it which was damaging to his father's campaign, and the FBI has confirmed as much in their investigation.
Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report
As part of their investigation into Hunter Biden, federal prosecutors have looked into emails between the first son and his former business associates that were recovered from the laptop.nypost.com
Twitter, Facebook restrict users' dissemination of New York Post story on Biden
Facebook and Twitter cast doubt on a New York Post story that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son, taking proactive steps to restrict dissemination of the story in the hours after it was published on Wednesday.www.reuters.com
Jack Dorsey says blocking Post’s Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won’t say who made it (included here b/c the former CEO of Twitter says blocking that story was a total mistake).
Facebook and Twitter restrict controversial New York Post story on Joe Biden
Social media platforms move to limit spread of article amid questions over its veracitywww.theguardian.com
TL;DR - Even Gov officials at the time said "this looks like a Russian hoax", and then they fully walked that claim back and say that the laptop is genuine, and the contents of it belong to Hunter Biden, and they are VERY damning.
This is but one example of voices on one side (NOT NAZI's, people with a different political view) being suppressed by an inherent bias of the moderation groups at Twitter and Facebook. This is the root of the claim by those NOT on the left (not necessarily on the right, the middle is claiming this as well), that it was a gross over-reach.
I know this is a "political post", but you asked for some links to back up the "why", so that's the reason for the post, and the reason why some people view Twitter as they did before Musk bought it (very left-biased).
When you cut the staff for child exploitation you get crap like this:
www.techdirt.com
I asked because someone else repeatedly invokes dark political magic happening behind the scenes. I'm more interested in a nonpartisan view of how these things occur.Well, it is well-documented that the Hunter Biden story was blocked by Twitter when it broke. That's one substantial example, with far-reaching political ramifications, that I can think of. Twitter (and Facebook) flagged and suppressed that story's distribution (right before an election) as false info. Since that happened 2 years ago, it's come 180 degrees and even CNN and MSNBC have reported that the laptop story was 100% valid, the laptop was Hunter Biden's, had all kinds of horrible info on it which was damaging to his father's campaign, and the FBI has confirmed as much in their investigation.
Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report
As part of their investigation into Hunter Biden, federal prosecutors have looked into emails between the first son and his former business associates that were recovered from the laptop.
Twitter, Facebook restrict users' dissemination of New York Post story on Biden
Facebook and Twitter cast doubt on a New York Post story that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son, taking proactive steps to restrict dissemination of the story in the hours after it was published on Wednesday.
Jack Dorsey says blocking Post’s Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won’t say who made it (included here b/c the former CEO of Twitter says blocking that story was a total mistake).
Facebook and Twitter restrict controversial New York Post story on Joe Biden
Social media platforms move to limit spread of article amid questions over its veracity
TL;DR - Even Gov officials at the time said "this looks like a Russian hoax", and then they fully walked that claim back and say that the laptop is genuine, and the contents of it belong to Hunter Biden, and they are VERY damning.
This is but one example of voices on one side (NOT NAZI's, people with a different political view) being suppressed by an inherent bias of the moderation groups at Twitter and Facebook. This is the root of the claim by those NOT on the left (not necessarily on the right, the middle is claiming this as well), that it was a gross over-reach.
I know this is a "political post", but you asked for some links to back up the "why", so that's the reason for the post, and the reason why some people view Twitter as they did before Musk bought it (very left-biased).
First, sorry to hear about your dad.
There was no trail of custody of the laptop.Well, it is well-documented that the Hunter Biden story was blocked by Twitter when it broke. That's one substantial example, with far-reaching political ramifications, that I can think of. Twitter (and Facebook) flagged and suppressed that story's distribution (right before an election) as false info. Since that happened 2 years ago, it's come 180 degrees and even CNN and MSNBC have reported that the laptop story was 100% valid, the laptop was Hunter Biden's, had all kinds of horrible info on it which was damaging to his father's campaign, and the FBI has confirmed as much in their investigation.
Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report
As part of their investigation into Hunter Biden, federal prosecutors have looked into emails between the first son and his former business associates that were recovered from the laptop.
Twitter, Facebook restrict users' dissemination of New York Post story on Biden
Facebook and Twitter cast doubt on a New York Post story that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son, taking proactive steps to restrict dissemination of the story in the hours after it was published on Wednesday.
Jack Dorsey says blocking Post’s Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won’t say who made it (included here b/c the former CEO of Twitter says blocking that story was a total mistake).
Facebook and Twitter restrict controversial New York Post story on Joe Biden
Social media platforms move to limit spread of article amid questions over its veracity
TL;DR - Even Gov officials at the time said "this looks like a Russian hoax", and then they fully walked that claim back and say that the laptop is genuine, and the contents of it belong to Hunter Biden, and they are VERY damning.
This is but one example of voices on one side (NOT NAZI's, people with a different political view) being suppressed by an inherent bias of the moderation groups at Twitter and Facebook. This is the root of the claim by those NOT on the left (not necessarily on the right, the middle is claiming this as well), that it was a gross over-reach.
I know this is a "political post", but you asked for some links to back up the "why", so that's the reason for the post, and the reason why some people view Twitter as they did before Musk bought it (very left-biased).
This was discussed way up thread. Much have been made about "activists," but there is zero evidence they have the power to directly control advertisers. They also don't have the standing to make any agreements with Elon, given they don't have say on whether advertisers continue to advertise on Twitter.
teslamotorsclub.com
Considering Tesla shut down their own forums last year, I doubt people would have much confidence automated systems written by Tesla engineers would be a good replacement for human moderators.
freebeacon.com
Second the notion. I was a denizen of those forums. The early days of those forums provided a place for those interested in Teslas to Ask Questions and Get Answers. Once the FUD train got well and started, various short sellers and, given the actions and contexts of those that are conveniently named, "trolls", it appears that other, paid-for actors were sent to disrupt the place. It was discovered that at least two of these troll-types were playing the same games at Ford's EV forums. (Besides: It gets kind of obvious that there's Something Going On when a particular poster is posting FUD and associated 24 hours a day, for days at a time.)Considering Tesla shut down their own forums last year, I doubt people would have much confidence automated systems written by Tesla engineers would be a good replacement for human moderators.
The rumormill at the time was that Tesla shut it down because they didn't want to hire moderators to deal with all the spam and trolls.
And in Tesla's situation, Tesla only had to deal with their own image and standards. In Twitter's case, they have deal with many advertisers which may not have as much patience.
Chiming in here, I'm a semi-retired infosec person and still have a lot of connections in that community, and I want to agree with this posting; it is general consensus that the laptop was so tampered with it has no evidentiary value one way or another.
This was discussed way up thread. Much have been made about "activists," but there is zero evidence they have the power to directly control advertisers. They also don't have the standing to make any agreements with Elon, given they don't have say on whether advertisers continue to advertise on Twitter.
The only logical group that Musk may have been referring to is GARM, an industry group that Twitter itself is part of. But as noted, while that group can call for collective action, they have no way to force a member to continue advertising on a particular platform.
Elon & Twitter
It's almost as if people didn't know that Musk has made a habit of doing stupid/ expensive things which turn out to be incredibly profitable. Can you name a Musk company that people didn't think would be a massive waste of time and money when he got involved? Its almost as if you don’t...
The most logical reason to pause ads (which had been pointed out in various articles) is that advertisers are simply taking a wait and see approach. It was pointed out up thread also, Twitter laid off most of the staff that dealt with problems that advertisers had with content. If there is no one around to deal with the problems they are having, pausing ad spend makes a lot of sense.
