It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by briantakita on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:29AM (#33520827)

There are no links to the raw footage for the Twitter interviews. I called them & asked them to provide all raw footage as they provide raw footage for some of their episodes & it would be a significant distinguishing feature for a news organization to provide raw footage for all episodes. Note that you are holding them to a higher standard than other news outlets who rarely provide the raw interview footage & mostly edit the interviews...but I do agree that all raw footage for all interviews should be provided for transparency & to provide more context.

Nonetheless, the Twitter employees still said what they said & expressed their intent to censor political opponents. You can point out that there is no raw footage for Project Veritas, even though all news organizations rarely provide raw footage & they all editorialize & they all edit, but it still does not change the fact of what was said...You might not like their editorialization or their editing, but what was said is still on video. You can call it "deceptive practices", but all news organizations engage in the same "deceptive practices".

I hope they change their policy after my call with them because they have an opportunity be a leading example of even more transparent journalism.

At the end of the day...Elon still owns Twitter, Twitter is having a record inflow of activity & active users, Elon fired the old staff, & many people are happy about it...you can't change that either. You can complain, but it still happened.

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Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tchaffee on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:27PM (#33525193)

Like I said from the very beginning, you can only provide links that are highly edited and leave out the context. At the end of the day only the naive and gullible will trust those videos. Your choice of course.

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Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by briantakita on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:31PM (#33527533)

Then any interview by any organization that is edited, which is the large majority, "leaves out the context" & only the "naive and gullible" would believe it. Or you have a double standard based on the narrative that you want to hear. IMO & the opinion of many, there was more than enough context...it just happens that it's not what you want to hear. They had various ramblings for well over a minute. I don't think any more context is going to change what they were trying to express.

Again, it's all moot. These people lost their jobs & good riddance. Twitter is heading in a better direction now. I doubt any more Twitter employees will ramble on about how they are going to censor political opponents anymore.

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