Twitter said it wasn’t clear why its Home timeline produced these results and indicated that it may now need to change its algorithm.
They banned The Post, but Twitter didn’t take these tweets down
When Twitter banned the New York Post one year ago, it was clear from the start that the decision was arbitrary, hypocritical — and political.
The Post asked our friends at Twitchy.com, a site dedicated to chronicling the worst of Twitter, to help collect some examples of things the service didn’t ban. Go after a Democratic politician and you’re flagged. But call for a Republican to die, and everything’s fine…
Twitter labels obituary ‘misleading’ as American woman dies of rare Covid ‘vaccine-induced’ reaction
The obituary of a Seattle woman who tragically died from a rare blood clotting event after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine mandated by the US government has been labelled as “misleading” by Twitter fact checkers.
On Saturday, Twitter user Kelly Bee shared an obituary of Jessica Berg Wilson, a 37-year-old Seattle woman who reportedly died from “Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT).” VITT is considered a very rare adverse event which may occur following the administration of adenovirus vector Covid-19 vaccines, such as the AstraZeneca and J&J shots.
Twitter Cedes Taiwan to China
China has finally taken control of Taiwan, according to social networking giant Twitter, which redirects some searches for the word Taiwan to results for the word China.
China’s regime has long laid claim to Taiwan, an independent island founded by those fleeing communism. Journalist Jeryl Bier on Friday morning noticed Twitter’s discrepancy, which mirrors Chinese Communist Party talking points. The Washington Free Beacon confirmed the pattern and estimated that between four and five tweets with the word China show up for every one that references Taiwan.
FEC Reportedly Decides Twitter Did Nothing Wrong Suppressing True Hunter Biden Laptop Story
The FEC ruled that Twitter had “credibly explained” its move to temporarily block the New York Post story from being shared on its platform, according to The New York Times, which obtained an unreleased document outlining the commission’s decision to dismiss a complaint filed by the Republican National Committee in October alleging that Twitter’s censorship of the story was an “illegal in-kind contribution” to then-candidate Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
What about all the anti-Trump family content they promoted?
Texas Governor Signs Law Preventing Social Media Companies From Banning People For Their Views
The law, known as HB 20, prohibits social media platforms from banning or suspending users, and removing or suppressing their content, based on political viewpoint. The bill was introduced by state Sen. Bryan Hughes partly in an effort to combat perceived censorship of conservatives by Facebook, Twitter, Google-owned YouTube, and other major tech companies.
COVID Researcher Sues Biden, Facebook, Twitter for Colluding to Censor Speech
The complaint, dated Aug. 31, alleged that the federal government “admits to conspiring with social media companies to censor messages with which it disagrees.”
The lawsuit argued that this viewpoint discrimination, in which the federal government directs Big Tech companies to censor views that challenge a certain narrative, violated the First Amendment.
How did it get to this?
New from @ddale8: A “step-by-step breakdown” of what went wrong with the viral story about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin https://t.co/K8tC9ub3TP
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 7, 2021
National Economic Council Director Brian Deese reacts to increasing grocery prices:
“If you take out [beef, pork, and poultry], we’ve actually seen prices increases that are more in line with historical norms.” pic.twitter.com/wao3zfwuow
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 8, 2021
Richmond Hill, Ontario – discrimination free restaurant pic.twitter.com/O6RaE5Z8Fo
— Chiara 🇨🇦 (@chiara_ann13) September 8, 2021
I live in rural Texas. The hospitals are empty. The end. https://t.co/Icp2RsnNFy
— Dirk Diggler (@TDProductions2) September 8, 2021
An unvaccinated minority that doesn’t watch the news or trust the news is putting the vaccinated majority at undue risk. There’s no way around that reality https://t.co/FkqUoh5EMW
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 8, 2021
Twitter makes it more difficult for its antisemitism partners like CAA to report racist tweets
Twitter has made it more difficult for its partners, including Campaign Against Antisemitism, to report racist hate on its platform.
Last summer, Twitter invited Campaign Against Antisemitism to become a ‘Twitter partner’, allowing us to report problematic material directly through the company’s ‘partner portal’ to Twitter personnel (rather than machines) for review. Following our experience to date, we recently published a damning report, which prompted major national media coverage, showing how Twitter fails to implement consistently its own policies on hate.
However, Twitter appears to have reacted by making it even harder for us and its other so-called ‘partners’ to report hateful material to the company, in two ways.
Twitter enlists users to flag ‘misleading’ tweets as part of misinformation crackdown
Twitter staff will review certain reported tweets depending on the topic or level of exposure and determine if they violate the company’s misinformation policies, a Twitter spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Twitter’s “Feminist” Trust and Safety Council Says Nothing About Taliban on Twitter
Twitter keeps emphasizing its feminism. Its Trust and Safety Council includes Feminist Frequency, a group associated with Anita Sarkeesian: a notorious troll who claims to be a feminist. During the last Hamas campaign against Israel, Sarkeesian went out of her way to bash Israel and Jews
Neo-Colonial Twitter – Jack is keeping The Black Man Down
Why Twitter got it wrong in Nigeria
… At the time, Twitter said the post was in violation of its rules.
The company has the right to enforce its regulations, but Mr Buhari’s post was an official communication from the Nigerian president to his people, tweeted from a government account.
The same message was also broadcast on other media platforms across the country.
Is it right that a private American firm has the power to edit, without permission, the official communication of a democratically elected president of an African country? It doesn’t get any more neo-colonial than that.
Twitter Nazis
Maxime Bernier and I follow each other, but I’m not allowed to like this tweet.
The vaccinated and the unvaccinated should all oppose #VaccinePassports.
Everybody’s basic freedoms will be destroyed if we become a surveillance and police state.
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) August 11, 2021
Twitter Nazis
“This tweet can’t be replied to, shared, or liked.” https://t.co/FqXxlUQuf7
— Stan in the Tan Van (@bloviate70) August 8, 2021
Twitter Suspends Journalist for Repeating CDC Vaccine Data They Don’t Like
Twitter Suspends Journalist for… sharing CDC data on vaccines?
There’s an old saying about shooting the messenger: Don’t.
It’s not a very clever saying, but it’s still good advice.