Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise

Re:Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise by rayiner on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:38AM (#15758147)

Twitter and it’s not even close. A journalists synthesis of what he thinks the evidence is carries no weight. Twitter is like a mini trial. You hear the testimony from the horse’s mouth, people cite documentary evidence, and you weigh credibility to reach a conclusion.

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Re:Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise by mozumder on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:59PM (#15759439)

So you trust the Russian troll bots on Twitter?

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Re:Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise by eitland on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:04PM (#15760089)

That's absolutely not what rayiner wrote.

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Re:Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise by mozumder on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:21AM (#15766000)

Trial witnesses need to have their identity confirmed. You can't do that on twitter.

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