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2022-07-12, 09:47

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Originally Posted by turtle View Post
The "right" who love Twitter don't see it as bipartisan but heavily censored with the favor to liberals. That can't really be contested. The liberal management of Twitter is quick to ban things that are hard right where Antifa runs free.
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BBC: Twitter's algorithm favours right-leaning politics, research finds.
The Hill: Musk says Twitter is biased against conservatives — facts say otherwise

Techdirt, in their article about that second study, lays it out:

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In other words, stripped of culture war buzzwords, the vast majority of people want social media websites to intervene to slow the spread of misinformation (contrary to what you might hear out there). Second, the evidence pretty strongly shows that spreading misinformation is the leading indicator of why you might get banned by a social media platform.

So, even if more Republicans than Democrats end up getting banned, the evidence again suggests that it’s not anti-conservative bias at work, the issue is just that Republicans are significantly more likely to spread bullshit. If they stopped doing that, they wouldn’t face the same moderation pressures.

So it goes.
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