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Title: Twitter Engineer: "Who Talks Like That?"
Post by: Ben on March 22, 2019, 03:36:49 PM
In case you were wondering why conservatives, or pretty much half the country that talks about these subjects at work, backyard barbeques, etc., are deleted on Twitter for being Russian bots:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/03/22/you-just-delete-them-james-okeefe-shares-shocking-video-of-twitter-engineer-sharing-how-he-deals-with-trump-supporters/
Title: Re: Twitter Engineer: "Who Talks Like That?"
Post by: cordex on March 22, 2019, 03:42:29 PM
There is a recent No Dumb Questions podcast that addresses this kind of thing.  Destin Sandlin from Smarter Every Day goes a little bit into the multi-direction war being fought between social media companies, their legitimate user base, and malicious posting.

I think he misses some of the the top-down bias in those companies, but at the same time he brings up some very legitimate points that I had not considered.

Definite recommendation.
Title: Re: Twitter Engineer: "Who Talks Like That?"
Post by: makattak on March 22, 2019, 03:46:11 PM
In case you were wondering why conservatives, or pretty much half the country that talks about these subjects at work, backyard barbeques, etc., are deleted on Twitter for being Russian bots:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/03/22/you-just-delete-them-james-okeefe-shares-shocking-video-of-twitter-engineer-sharing-how-he-deals-with-trump-supporters/

These people have honestly never had any contact with, at minumum, 40% of the country. They think they don't exist.

These are the same people who think that the black population is 25% of the country and the homosexual population 25-50% of the country. Because their worldview is so completely skewed, and have no desire to see things as they are.
Title: Re: Twitter Engineer: "Who Talks Like That?"
Post by: Pb on March 25, 2019, 11:31:42 AM
"No one really likes America."

Then get out!

I'm betting this guy is a foreign national, like 50%+ of these tech workers.