Both acts seems to mostly reflect Trump's waning power and are unconnected to any larger effort to address how they have facilitated the spread of extremism, conspiracy theories, and violence
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I am equally impressed with Facebook and Twitter's decision to ban Trump now as Betsy DeVos and Elaine Chao's decision to resign now.
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With respect to Facebook and Twitter, banning Trump now, with hours left in his presidency seems like an easy way to avoid tougher conversations about how their algorithms are used to spread misinformation, extremism, and violence. I'd prefer to focus on that rather than Trump.
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The banning of Trump will be used as a cudgel to "prove" that these sites are biased against the right-wing when, especially in Facebook's case, they remain the a powerful vehicle for dangerous right-wing rhetoric. Improving info quality would be less flashy but more important
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Republicans are more upset about Trump's twitter ban than about an actual insurrection against our democracy that killed 5 people. Tells us everything about them, we had their number right from the start. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
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That’s weird. The sarcasm font just triggered on my iPhone.
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Their cash pile was beginning to topple over
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Even if no moral props, the Facebook and Twitter decisions will have significant direct positive impact.
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I sense a bit of facetiousness and could not agree more.
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“As the first-mate of this sinking rat ship, I, first-mate rat, have decided to abandon our rat ship that I wrecked on the way to a rat rendezvous with other rats”
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