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by Brian_K_White 663 days ago
It's a fact that a pattern of behavior was accused, but a pattern of behavior was not shown.

Tells us more about bias.

(I'm no Twitter fan. I never had a Twitter account and no way in hell would I now.)

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>It's a fact that a pattern of behavior was accused, but a pattern of behavior was not shown.

Yes, that is exactly what both the article and I said. The warning was applied to the link. Some people accused Twitter of doing that nefariously. Twitter denied it and claimed it was a mistake. Those are the facts of the situation.

The motivation for applying the warning or whether it was a mistake are not facts that can be confirmed by an independent journalist. They are speculation regardless of which side of the issue you come down on.

"this article falls into the fact based reporting category" is unsupported.

The article makes a general claim of behavior that is not supported by any single incident, yet only presents a single incident.

What are you talking about specifically? Can you point to a quote from the article that you think crosses a line journalistically? Because it seems like you’re equating reporting on the existence of accusations with actively making accusations and that type of thinking comes from either bias or a lack of media literacy.