Facebook and Twitter engineers busy this weekend flipping the sign on their content moderation rules around the "coronavirus escaped from a lab" storyhttps://twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/1396592275560583170 …
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it is genuinely an open question, with multiple possible answers where the correct one might be a hybrid of two or three of the suggested paths. But PATT points out that the article doesn’t get us any closer to any form of answer, while misrepresenting how authoritative it is.
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My interest in the story is not about where the virus came from, but in the hot mess of policing dissent on these sites through censorship. I think we can all agree we went from "this is a harmful conspiracy theory" to "this is an open question" in one weird lurch.
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Yes. Maybe it's right, maybe it's not. Problem is the recent reporting is riddled with red flags and doesn't get you closer to an answer.
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I say hats off to your careful analysis of this particular story. I'm interested in the somewhat unconnected question of what is in bounds and out of bounds for public speculation on social media, and how and by whose authority those lines are redrawn.
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Different people ask it for different reasons. And they want different answers that suit what they’re looking for Scientists want to track virus spillovers, which happen ALL the time, to prevent future pandemics Nationalist pols want scapegoats
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