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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Also worth bearing in mind that the most successful Twitter user of all time is the President
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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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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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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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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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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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I think there’s reason to believe you’re wrong about that
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It's all algos.
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No they don't.
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