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by eahman00 2862 days ago
I doubt you'll get right-wing stuff, this looks like it will be handpicked by some human, and only enabled for tweets they deem too controversial. i.e. Alex Jones says something, and then some human at Twitter HQ slaps a CNN tweet and a Snopes article next to the tweet without any permission from Alex Jones.

But in truth I don't really care if they want to shove tweets from nazis or communists or liberals or potato salads in my face. I only want to see what I follow. Is that too much to ask for?

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try "some algorithm". Twitter would never be able to hire enough people to hand curate that.
As I said above, I believe this will be some kind of emergency measure to discredit handpicked tweets that have an enormous amount of retweets or made by specific users with an enormous amount of followers. It doesn't matter if it doesn't scale because it won't be used at scale.
> I doubt you'll get right-wing stuff, this looks like it will be handpicked by some human

That's definitely not going to be the case. It wouldn't even remotely scale. Heck, Twitter don't even have staff that speak many languages.