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2022-12-01 -Great Cultural Revolution

'It was a mistake': Ex-Twitter safety chief FINALLY admits censoring Hunter Biden's laptop story was a huge error - but claims it was because 'we did not know what was true'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 It wasn't "uncertainty". They were 100% certain that this exposed Biden for what he really is: a corrupt insider who is up to his eyeballs in behavior the rest of the world considers contemptible.

This would have led to him losing votes and is hence unacceptable. Thus, the censorship campaign.

Censors don't censor lies, they censor the truth. They don't want the world knowing the truth because it is too damaging to their diseased and corrupt cause. Think of that next time you censor anyone.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-01 01:39|| 2022-12-01 01:39|| Front Page Top

My guess is Twitter was a host for government and political censorship embeds.

The silent partner of censorship is disinformation.

Once discovered, Musk's mass termination program may have possibly been a technique to flush the platform of these embeds and bot makers.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-01 05:45|| 2022-12-01 05:45|| Front Page Top

#3 If it was intentional its not a "mistake".

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-01 08:07|| 2022-12-01 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Admits mistake ...
Or hoping to avoid being charged with conspiracy to cover up International Criminal Activities that reach deep into the DC Swamp?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-01 09:10|| 2022-12-01 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Roth said the story set off 'hack and leak' alarms, but he did not believe it should have ever been censored

... says the guy responsible for censoring stories on Twitter.

Posted by Raj 2022-12-01 09:23|| 2022-12-01 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 "Honest mistake" Erred out of caution, no "bad faith" involved.

My ass.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-01 09:28|| 2022-12-01 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 ZERO - Musk: Twitter Has "Interfered In Elections"

In a discussion over a Reuters article in which the company's former head of trust and safety says Twitter is 'not safer' under Musk, user @EvaFoxU posted: "Twitter has shown itself to be not safe for the past 10 years and has lost users’ trust. The past team of "trust and safety” is a disgrace, so it doesn’t have any right to judge what is being done now," adding "They had a chance, but they sold their souls to a corporation."

To which Musk replied, "Exactly. The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections."

Musk then said that "Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-01 10:03|| 2022-12-01 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Election interference by an American is treasonous. I'm not sure what the crime for a foreign individual but I think we should have the right to lock some folks up while we figure it out. Mistake or not.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-12-01 12:45|| 2022-12-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

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