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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by cbb330 on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:42PM (#34144823)
The importance is that every free and democratic nation in the world has its’ policies influenced by the loudest voices on Twitter. So if Twitter amplifies an idea it becomes reality.
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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by SkipperCat on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:16PM (#34145050)
Does it really do that? Or is it just a distraction? All the noise from the Twitter didn’t stop Trump from giving his speech on Jan 6th. Biden didn’t backtrack on the pull out from Afghanistan because of Twitter. No gun bans. No end of drag show book time.

I’d say it’s just a reflection of us, not our compass.

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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by twblalock on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:49AM (#34145558)
Quite a lot of people know what Trump tweeted, even though they never had Twitter accounts.

Sometimes it seemed like most of the news coverage of Trump consisted of news anchors reading his tweets on air. His tweets got a lot of the people into DC on the 6th to hear his speech in the first place.

Twitter is not just a distraction, sometimes it is the news.

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