The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19. The Biden White House was in constant contact w/Twitter to Censor posts. Trump WH did some of this moderation too. Trump admin appeared to want to stop/reduce panic buying.
A name to remember: Michael Kratsios> https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2279091/michael-jk-kratsios/
Google, Facebook and Microsoft attended White House meetings
When Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on “anti-vaxxer accounts.” Especially Alex Berenson
Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts.
Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.
Bots were used to identify offensive posts
Content moderation was also outsourced to the Phillipines!
Higher level employees at Twitter who chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, subjectively decided escalated cases and suspensions.
Doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.
Tweets were also shadow banned and prevented from sharing/trending
JAMES BAKER argued for censoring Trump's Tweet when he left Walter Reed after getting COVID
* The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19. The Biden White House was in constant contact w/Twitter to Censor posts. Trump WH did some of this moderation too. Trump admin appeared to want to stop/reduce panic buying.
* A name to remember: Michael Kratsios> https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2279091/michael-jk-kratsios/
* Google, Facebook and Microsoft attended White House meetings
* When Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on “anti-vaxxer accounts.” Especially Alex Berenson
* Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts.
* Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.
* Bots were used to identify offensive posts
* Content moderation was also outsourced to the Phillipines!
* Higher level employees at Twitter who chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, subjectively decided escalated cases and suspensions.
* Doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.
* Tweets were also shadow banned and prevented from sharing/trending
* JAMES BAKER argued for censoring Trump's Tweet when he left Walter Reed after getting COVID
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