"forcing {X} off twitter would simply push them into dark social networks where we can't monitor them" works as well for X = 'bluechecks' as it does X = 'far right'
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In fact, as I argue in the piece, groupthink makes groups more extreme than they were. It is not shining a light on a pre-existing issue, so much as exacerbating the problem. (And yes, I've worked in newsrooms pre- and post-Twitter.)
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As with many datapoints, what you think you've discovered is actually an artifact of the observation process.
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Had this thought abt the Tom Cotton op ed from a couple of decades ago
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no purge more of a flight or maybe a forced migration, though not sure what to call a forced migration to make people go back to where they were supposed to be in the first place
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and not all bluechecks, only the ones we are supposed to believe have some sort of institutional imprimatur Rob Reiner and Kevin Sorbo can go right on doing their do
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While distributed/decentralized info curation does tend towards wheel nodes (similar to centralization) bc of incentives to grow ones audience, one major benefit is the ability for masses of randos to call the taste makers out on their BShttps://twitter.com/CXGonzalez_/status/1346981790515343360 …
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I dunno. That day all the Blue Checks couldn’t log in was a pretty glorious day.
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oh wow I had almost forgotten
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