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    1. Jesse Singal‏Verified account @jessesingal Jan 29

      Jesse Singal Retweeted jbrenner

      It's very hard to tell what causes the most damage. GMO crops can save countles people from starvation, and it's very hard to run counterfactuals about what would or wouldn't happen without them in a given place. Same with the ? of the exact causal effect of vaccine misinfohttps://twitter.com/jbrenner2000/status/1487480454198476804 …

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      jbrenner @jbrenner2000
      Replying to @jessesingal
      Young's anti- GMO silliness =/= the platform JoeR gives to anti-vaxers =/= some Nazi saying the Holocaust was a lie & or a good thing =/= pedo advocacy I don't think the gov should shut down any of these, but private platforms & their viewers have the right to pick and choose
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 29
      Replying to @jessesingal

      Isn't the pandemic still going on? Aren't thousands of people dying from it every day? Haven't nearly a million Americans died from Covid? Spreading false information in that situation is different than making false & refutable claims during normal political times.

      26 replies 3 retweets 37 likes
    3. Jesse Singal‏Verified account @jessesingal Jan 29
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Jeet, your outlet referenced the "attempted murder" of Jacob Blake, said he was 'unarmed,' and said the people Rittenhouse shot were 'unarmed.' Such misinfo surely contributed to $1b - $2b in rioting and dozens of deaths. Deplatform The Nation or just these authors?pic.twitter.com/JkOOw7dXLR

      18 replies 192 retweets 1,267 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 29
      Replying to @jessesingal

      Weird what about-isms since the crucial point that medical misinformation in the midst of a pandemic is different than other types of misinformation.

      64 replies 2 retweets 20 likes
    5. Jesse Singal‏Verified account @jessesingal Jan 29
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Okay, so in your view we'll have a panel decide which sorts of misinformation are okay, and why, and this panel will decide that The Nation's misinformation -- largely delivered while people were being killed and blocks burned down in rioting -- isn't severe enough?

      7 replies 18 retweets 537 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 29
      Replying to @jessesingal

      I think you and I have a very different understanding of what causes people to riot.

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        1. Jesse Singal‏Verified account @jessesingal Jan 29
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Okay, so your view is that online misinformation can't contribute to rioting but can contribute to evidenceless medical decisions. Can you explain?

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        2. Dave C‏ @davecdnb Jan 29
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jessesingal

          The repeated misinformation surrounding the Blake shooting definitely caused some ppl to riot…is that even disputable?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 29
          Replying to @davecdnb @jessesingal

          Yeah. Read some history. Start here and also Heather Thompson's work.https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691162553/the-origins-of-the-urban-crisis …

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        1. David Ottlinger‏ @DavidOttlinger Jan 29
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jessesingal

          We know. But the other side will have equally glib and self serving justifications for why their concerns are significant and yours not and they too will hold power. Are you sure you want to play this game with them?

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        1. D*g*ngue‏ @nogdrogue Jan 29
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jessesingal

          Inciting racial hatred doesn’t cause riots

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        2. Tyler Reed‏ @TomstoHoboRags Jan 29
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jessesingal

          I think the idea that riots cannot have different causes is pretty odd. Pogroms are also a type of mob destruction, which we know for certain misinformation helps fuel. Strange to think that the misinformation regarding the Blake shooting had nothing to do with the following

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        3. Tyler Reed‏ @TomstoHoboRags Jan 29
          Replying to @TomstoHoboRags @HeerJeet @jessesingal

          riots, nor the well publicized deaths during those riots. Tacitly admitting that your publication has produced egregious misinformation, but it is somehow fundamentally less bad and shouldn't have the same response you call for other misinformation is pretty gross.

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