Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by emodendroket on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:45AM
(#15567747)
Yes, that's kind of how I feel too.
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by cat199 on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:55AM
(#15567810)
nonono, you have it all wrong, my aganda is 'objective truth from an unbiased source' but your agenda is propaganda
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by emodendroket on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:58AM
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All sources have an agenda beyond objective truth. Influence is a lot more subtle than just the obvious maneuver of publishing outright falsehoods. Through emphasis and omission you can easily mislead people without ever saying anything untrue. Assuming the reporter hasn't been lied to by his sources in the first place.
I'm struggling to see the difference here, other than Jack/Twitter doesn't care that it has an agenda or is influenced by a government, but they disagree with the particular agenda...
Yes RT is worse, but it's also more overt, this divide will always be full of shades of gray not black/white. It's a very dangerous road to travel down, letting Twitter be the arbiter of news orgs, and if this is going to be limited to simply Russia and not hundreds of other news orgs then it's quite obvious it has it's own agenda as well.