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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Aug 2018
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    For conservatives, the idea that Twitter is waging some covert ideological crusade to silence them is comforting in its simplicity. But tech companies want conservatives' business just as much as anybody's. Having a persecution complex does nothing to identify the actual problem

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Aug 2018
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        I don't have an easy tweet-sized answer for what "the actual problem" is, but a Big Mean Liberal Conspiracy To Punish Conservatives is not the problem. These companies need genuine oversight and checks -- getting mired in familiar victimhood tropes won't serve that purpose

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Aug 2018
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        Also worth bearing in mind that the most successful Twitter user of all time is the President

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      2. Jason of the Third Estate 🌹 🇺🇸  🇫🇮‏ @ArktinenJenkki 20 Aug 2018
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        Ideologically pushing for wars and public money going to private banks. They’ve got an ideological position alright, you are just unable to identify where their loyalties lay.

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      2. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen 19 Aug 2018
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        The idea that Twitter is driven solely by a profit motive is comforting in its simplicity too, but it’s been largely an emergent institution.

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      2. Kevin D. Jones‏ @Kevin_D_Jones 19 Aug 2018
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        The actual problem is abusable algorithms by a coordinated group that by default tends to favor certain types of actors over others.

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      2. J Campbell‏ @jrok78 19 Aug 2018
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        Agree. The conspiracy against conservatives is a dumb narrative. But there is a clear problem when tech CEOs talk about how they need to be more active in fostering the right kinds of conversation, which is a veiled way to say “we are the deciders on what’s healthy speech”

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      1. McReady‏ @FishMcready 20 Aug 2018
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        This is straw mannish, boy. Treating an 'effect' as a conspiracy might make it easier to dismiss, but doesn't negate the effect, which is emergent from the system.

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      1. Ruminative Orangutan‏ @Ruminorang 20 Aug 2018
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        I think there’s reason to believe you’re wrong about that

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        It's all algos.

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      1. Last Stand‏ @thegulley 19 Aug 2018
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      1. LB Shore‏ @shorepatrol 20 Aug 2018
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        No they don't.

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