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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by JohnTHaller on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:53AM (#29770375)
Most private sector businesses don't want to be in the business of helping spread deadly lies, though. And they're not required to be.
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by gjsman-1000 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:55AM (#29770395)
Twitter did not even say she lied, they just said that they (Twitter) considered it “misleading.” Not false, “misleading.”
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by tshaddox on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:10PM (#29770633)
That’s a distinction without a difference. The reason that false claims are dangerous is because they can mislead people.
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by mint2 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:24PM (#29770848)
Most deception is build on half truth and partial truths and or even selective truths. Outright lies tend to be less believable
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by JohnTHaller on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:30PM (#29770944)
They don't want the liability of calling here a liar. But she's big on posting about 'vaccine deaths' and that the vaccine doesn't work against Delta and that people 65 and under don't need to worry about Covid.
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