X slapped a “warning” on links to NPR’s follow-up reporting on the Trump campaign’s altercation in Arlington National Cemetery, suggesting the link is “unsafe.”
It’s interesting that they are choosing this, of all things, to double down on. They’re not just contesting what happened at the event, but doing it in a confrontational fashion that guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on. It would be one thing to simply say “We had a discussion over this, We’re right, they’re wrong”. But they keep pushing it.
How many NPR fans are on Twitter these days, anyway? If Twitter had not chosen to step in and falsely label this story, it might have gotten 10 click-throughs and that’s it. But now, it’s an actual story, it remains in the news, and I’m not sure if that’s positive for the Trump campaign.
I know, it’s just what they do. It’s the crowd size thing, the Sharpie thing, the “alternative facts” all over again. My hope is that every time they push their false reality too far, a handful of voters realize what is happening, and it prevents them from gaining more power.
How many NPR fans are on Twitter these days, anyway? If Twitter had not chosen to step in and falsely label this story, it might have gotten 10 click-throughs and that’s it. But now, it’s an actual story, it remains in the news, and I’m not sure if that’s positive for the Trump campaign.
This is an interesting thought. Is Twitter now useful exclusively as a Streisand-Effect machine?
guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on.
A story where? On twitter where it is marked as unsafe and full of lies?
This is not the streisand effect. This is demonstrating the power of literally controlling the media to a degree that even rupert murdock gets envious of. Because if your news channel is spewing garbage? Other news channels and “grass roots” efforts will correct it. But if the platform they use to correct it is the thing that is compromised?
Shit like this? The trump story (that was never going to get traction) is irrelevant. What is relevant is musk and his handlers advertising what twitter can do and how long twitter is willing to “hold out” to regulation attempts.
It is the same logic behind apple making it clear they will resist information requests until there is a court order or Proton outright telling its users what it will and won’t give law enforcement and governments. Except this is marketing toward those governments, not the users.
It’s interesting that they are choosing this, of all things, to double down on. They’re not just contesting what happened at the event, but doing it in a confrontational fashion that guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on. It would be one thing to simply say “We had a discussion over this, We’re right, they’re wrong”. But they keep pushing it.
How many NPR fans are on Twitter these days, anyway? If Twitter had not chosen to step in and falsely label this story, it might have gotten 10 click-throughs and that’s it. But now, it’s an actual story, it remains in the news, and I’m not sure if that’s positive for the Trump campaign.
I know, it’s just what they do. It’s the crowd size thing, the Sharpie thing, the “alternative facts” all over again. My hope is that every time they push their false reality too far, a handful of voters realize what is happening, and it prevents them from gaining more power.
This is an interesting thought. Is Twitter now useful exclusively as a Streisand-Effect machine?
Trump’s tantrums shall be sequestered to his own platform no longer! they shall be amplified on Xitter once again!
A story where? On twitter where it is marked as unsafe and full of lies?
This is not the streisand effect. This is demonstrating the power of literally controlling the media to a degree that even rupert murdock gets envious of. Because if your news channel is spewing garbage? Other news channels and “grass roots” efforts will correct it. But if the platform they use to correct it is the thing that is compromised?
Shit like this? The trump story (that was never going to get traction) is irrelevant. What is relevant is musk and his handlers advertising what twitter can do and how long twitter is willing to “hold out” to regulation attempts.
It is the same logic behind apple making it clear they will resist information requests until there is a court order or Proton outright telling its users what it will and won’t give law enforcement and governments. Except this is marketing toward those governments, not the users.
There’s a human centipede that goes from Putin to Trump to Musk. That’s why they are doing it.