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Re: Twitter Ramps Up Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms With Fake Fact-Checking Program Expansion

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In article <sr5639$3dn$5@news.freedyn.de>
<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Time to charge tech CEOs with subversion and treason.
>

Birdwatch is a last-ditch attempt by Twitter to use manufactured 
consensus to influence Americans, especially those who are 
already voting.

Twitter is no stranger to manipulating the information voters 
are or aren’t exposed to so it’s no surprise that, just one 
month before midterm elections, the Big Tech company is 
expanding its fake fact-checking program “Birdwatch” to target 
all users.

Twitter first rolled out Birdwatch in 2021 as a way to recruit 
more censors who will join in their quest to silence their 
political enemies. Disguised under an alias that is not 
“publicly associated with contributors’ Twitter accounts,” 
birdwatchers who deem inconvenient or damning tweets to be 
“misinformation” are granted the power to add their own 
“context” to certain tweets for all to see.

Nearly two years into the program, it’s clear that the accounts 
Twitter deemed worthy of “fact-checking” belong to most of the 
same left-wing liars who run the corporate media and publicly 
call for the censorship of anyone who disagrees with them.

Seeing the success Birdwatch has yielded for Twitter, whose not-
so-secret goal is to memory-hole conservatives who speak the 
truth, the Big Tech platform is expanding the program beyond its 
test phase.

“If you use Twitter in the US, you’ll begin seeing notes 
occasionally in your Twitter feed starting today,” Twitter’s 
Birdwatch account tweeted on Thursday. “But don’t expect to see 
them all the time — notes only show up when they earn a status 
of ‘Helpful,’ and the contributor base is small (and growing).”


Twitter encouraged users to embrace the growing crowdsourcing 
program for the sake of “democracy” but it’s not hard to see how 
the Big Tech platform and the elites who are elevated on it 
could harness this power to do the opposite: swing elections in 
their favor regardless of voters’ feelings.

The Big Tech platform is no stranger to swinging elections. 
After all, it was one of the first social media companies to 
expurgate the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell mere weeks before 
the 2020 presidential election and lock the account of the 
legitimate news organization that reported it.

Even after the 2020 election, Twitter had no qualms about 
censoring former President Donald Trump’s calls for peace during 
the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That censorship and the company’s 
subsequent decision to banish Trump from the platform 
indefinitely were used as evidence by the sham House Jan. 6 
Committee in their efforts to keep the former president from 
ever returning to the White House.

Making Birdwatch public is a last-ditch attempt by Twitter to 
use manufactured consensus to influence Americans, especially 
those who are already heading to the polls to cast their votes.

It’s also one of the last opportunities for Twitter employees, 
distressed and chagrined by the idea that free speech could be 
restored on the site, to use their power to influence election 
outcomes (again) before Elon Musk purchases the Big Tech 
platform.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/06/twitter-ramps-up-election-
meddling-ahead-of-midterms-with-fake-fact-checking-program-
expansion/

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Re: Twitter Ramps Up Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms With Fake Fact-Checking Program Expansion P Ratt <richard@power.net> - 2022-10-10 11:49 +0200

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