OPINION: 'Twitter Files' show today's censors continue to be terrible at their jobs
It’s not as though the 80 FBI agents tasked to police social media were burying Twitter in secret information from some INTERPOL database. As Cardille observed,"They have some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations." Your tax dollars at work.On easy issues, like the date of Election Day, they might have been fairly reliable, but so is asking some guy off the street.
COVID-19 was another hot spot of error. Early on, the Trump administration asked for Twitter’s help quelling"misinformation" about panic buying at grocery stores, but as journalist David Zweig pointed out, thereIn August 2022, a reply tweet citing CDC data to prove that COVID was not the leading cause of death in children was labeled misinformation, with replies and likes disabled to prevent spread. The tweet to which it was replying, which actuallywrong, was left alone.
We now know that Twitter"bought into a wild hack-and-dump story" that Biden’s embarrassing data was stolen through hacking , loaded onto a laptop, and then planted at a Delaware computer store. This Rube Goldberg story was highly dubious even at the time. If you accept that the high-stakes decision to censor this story wasn’t politically motivated, you have to accept that the censors got it incredibly wrong.
Most Americans, thankfully, consider this kind of censorship to be morally wrong. Those who nevertheless continue to defend or embrace it, whether in or government, owe it to the rest of us to explain why the people they get to do the dirty work always fail so miserably.
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