Last year, I felt it was suboptimal for tech platforms to outsource their governance issues, because giving permit/deny rights on a material portion of all human utterances to parties which rhyme with governance seemed unwise. This year, it feels *extremely* suboptimal.
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What actually happened was simply "There is a team which had a meeting on how to reduce disinformation on the platform. They created some tooling and handed it off to a team whose name sounds something like Trust and Safety Ops."
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That team has a runbook for issues of social concern. The runbook specifies a rubric for identifying reliable sources. That rubric includes, among other options, official pronouncements from democratic governments.
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So when an issue of social concern came up, the team followed the runbook, added some keywords to the tool, checked on the rubric for who reliable sources w/r/t those keywords would be, Googled "Name of [agency type] in [democratic nation]", and there you go.
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I suppose I should give a disclaimer: I do not work at Twitter, I do not have inside information about how Twitter operates, I am *extremely* confident that I have the right of this, and comments which I may make in my personal spaces are endorsed by no one else most of time.
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I mean the rich elite DO work together to stage-manage world opinion about them vis-a-vis the poor...but yeah, it's more of a "decentralized rich ppl acting in their own self-interest via similar methods to reach same outcomes" way than a centralized planned conspiracy way, true.
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Sadly Out-group homogeneity is a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity …
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