🐱 Twitter thinking of removing "echo chambers" - and literally murder every lgbt i guess

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https://nypost.com/2018/08/16/twitter-ceo-is-rethinking-core-parts-of-how-service-works/

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media network so that it does not enable the spread of hate speech and disinformation.

In an interview on Wednesday with the Washington Post, Dorsey said his company is testing features that would help promote alternative points of view as a way to combat fake news and reduce “echo chambers.”

“The most important thing that we can do is we look at the incentives that we’re building into our product,” Dorsey told the Post. “Because they do express a point of view of what we want people to do — and I don’t think they are correct anymore.”

Dorsey, along with other Silicon Valley executives like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has grappled with how to reconcile his company’s mission and free-speech ethos with the increasingly virulent hate speech and fake news that have infiltrated his platform.

In the face of intense backlash, Zuckerberg announced a wave of changes at Facebook, including a top-to-bottom review of all the apps that utilize the social network and a massive hiring spree to thwart hate speech and misinformation.

In recent weeks, Dorsey has come under fire for saying that conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones was not in violation of its policies. Dorsey came under more fire for these comments, which caused him to backtrack. Twitter suspended most of Jones’ account activity for a seven-day period after Jones encouraged his followers in a video posted to Twitter to get their “battle rifles” ready against critics in the mainstream media and on the left.

Dorsey said in the Post interview that Twitter has not changed its incentives, which like most social platforms are designed to push interaction and keep users engaged consistently, since it was founded. “We often turn to policy to fix a lot of these issues, but I think that is only treating surface-level symptoms that we are seeing,” he said.

Twitter is exploring the possibility of surrounding false tweets with factual content, the CEO told the Post. More context about a tweet, including “tweets that call it out as obviously fake,” could help users make their own judgments, Dorsey added.

The microblogging platform might also one day label all automated accounts, including businesses that use them to send out information about the weather or stocks.

Meanwhile, some users are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to efforts to get Jones off of the platform for good.

This week, the Grab Your Wallet founder Shannon Coulter had a viral Twitter thread suggesting that users could get Jones banned by blocking a list of all the Fortune 500 Twitter handles. She organized the Twitter handles of the Fortune 500, then made them available as a collective block list.

Any user could install the block list with a couple of clicks, and if they have done so, ads from those companies would not appear in their Twitter timelines. According to her, over 50,000 people installed the tool as of Wednesday.

Twitter has continued to take heat from people on the left who say it enables neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists and those on the right who claim it is biased against them.

Dorsey is one of several technology leaders that will be grilled during a Senate hearing in September on Russian efforts to destabilize US democracy ahead of the midterm elections.
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So in otherwords, Twitter is doubling down on their censorship and de-platforming. That figures.
 
CatParty said:
Dorsey said his company is testing features that would help promote alternative points of view as a way to combat fake news and reduce “echo chambers.”
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"If your idea is worth having, it should stand up on its own merits under scrutiny" -some guy

What is the significance of the panda furry's salt? They're a very small-time user that orbits Jake Alley, but they barely do anything themselves(streaming page has no videos or clips, barely anything on youtube, etc)
 
How many Neo Nazis actually use Twitter? I'm getting tired of all this Chicken Little talk about white supremacy and Nazis.
 
CatParty said:
Twitter is exploring the possibility of surrounding false tweets with factual content, the CEO told the Post. More context about a tweet, including “tweets that call it out as obviously fake,” could help users make their own judgments, Dorsey added.
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Flagging down wrongthink and burying it in the correct opinion sounds like it will do the opposite of letting people make their own judgements, Jack.
 
xxXDxx said:
Notice the slovenly sloth in the OP managed to work the Great Autistic Holy War into her sperging
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*Shakes fist at sky*

GABERGRAPS!!!!!

GG has been over for what, 3 years? I cannot understand why these people think that throwing that in there will bring asspats because everyone knows it's over now.
 
Trash Eater said:
Flagging down wrongthink and burying it in the correct opinion sounds like it will do the opposite of letting people make their own judgements, Jack.
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It sounds fine, if you trust Twitter to make unbiased and reasonable decisions on what is "factually correct". Twitter, of course, literally hires partisan hacks to police wrongthink, but if you agree with the partisan hacks that's not an issue! Why don't you just take your Joy and think happy, feminist thoughts?
 
Mrs Paul said:
I would've thought death threats and shit like that would get someone an automatic ban? (Unless they're sending them by e-mail or something?)
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No, depends on the target and the twitter employee deciding the report. Threats against terfs seem to go unpunished especially, I think the high number of troons at twitter is a factor. Someone threatened to burn down the pussy church (Cathy Brennan's lesbian church) and twitter didn't do anything.
 
sperginity said:
No, depends on the target and the twitter employee deciding the report. Threats against terfs seem to go unpunished especially, I think the high number of troons at twitter is a factor. Someone threatened to burn down the pussy church (Cathy Brennan's lesbian church) and twitter didn't do anything.
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A lot of troons have been mad lately for getting bans for saying "KILL TERFS"
 
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