Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by teachrdan on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:02PM
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This seems to be a straw man argument. No in this thread is arguing that only "pure" outlets should be respected. The question is whether it was correct to lock the account of a media outlet that seems to be deliberately publishing news they know to be likely untruthful in an effort to sway the upcoming US presidential election.
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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by bigbubba on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:07PM
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Would twitter have blocked NYTimes in response to Walter Duranty or Judith Miller's reporting? Denying genocide or uncritically spreading pro-war propaganda seem comparably egregious to anything the NYPost has done.
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by rbanffy on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:02PM
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If the NYT's reporting were obviously a falsification, yes. Twitter would probably block them as well.
At the time it wasn't obvious. In those days information traveled much more slowly, with many more intermediaries than today and was, therefore, much less reliable.