They didn't post it, their dumb algorithm chooses among the most popular phrases and hashtags. The issue here is they didn't put in preventative measures that wouldn't allow things like this to happen. They're much too reliant on their algorithm and don't want to curate/moderate.
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"They didn't post it", but they also didn't ban people for saying it and they aren't taking any steps to keep it from happening again.
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So they're entirely responsible for it.
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they didn't make the posts so no. the people that made the posts should be held accountable and that's twitter's job. they're doing a very bad job.
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They made a machine that promotes racist things. They're not absolved because the machine they designed and built did the thing they made it do. The people making the original posts are responsible for their posts and should be banned. Twitter is responsible for promoting them.
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twitter didn't intentionally program racist tendencies. they made a machine that promotes popularity. the phrase is currently popular, so it shows up in that list.
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If GM makes a car that sometimes explodes instead of starting the engine, and then acknowledges that the cars explode, but refuses to change anything about the way they're made, they're responsible for it.
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Jesus christ,
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You had me at Twitter is awful
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@jack@TwitterSafety TwitterSaIt seems you could design an algorithm that alerted a human Twitter employee to investigate tweets with "Kill" & any marginalized groups in it. -
Or just “kill.” Kill on its own would probably be a good place to start.
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Twitter enables easy monitoring of dozens of news sources without subscribing to all (too expensive). Plus, we get researchers, journalists, and people like ourselves assembling good info. But, if there's another platform that does this I want in that & out of Twitter.
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