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by danShumway
1268 days ago
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It's not at all dishonest, the article itself highlights that Trump's administration was also concerned about misinformation, especially early on in the pandemic in regards to things like economic stability and availability of goods. > The United States government pressured Twitter to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19 and the pandemic. Internal emails that I viewed at Twitter showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s content according to their wishes. > At the onset of the pandemic, the Trump administration was especially concerned about panic buying, and sought “help from the tech companies to combat misinformation,” according to emails sent by Twitter employees in the wake of meetings with the White House. One area of so-called misinformation: “runs on grocery stores.” It goes on to talk mostly about the Biden administration, but that's an editorial decision. The author in no way claims that Trump's administration wasn't sending moderation requests to social media companies. This is not a Republican vs Democrat thing; every government under every administration coordinates with social media companies. If you're going to approach censorship through a purely partisan lens, you're not going to get very far. |
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