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Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets

Johnstone, Caitlin
http://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/26/twitter-rolls-out-new-wikipedia-like-program-to-narrative-manage-tweets/

Publisher:  Caitlin Johnstone Blog
Date Written:  26/01/2021
Year Published:  2021  
Resource Type:  Article

On the concerns raised in relation to Twitter's Birdwatch feature.

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So it's already established that this sort of "community-driven approach" to information control can easily be exploited by well-funded groups which have a vested interest in doing so. The fact that Twitter has already been functioning as a propaganda arm of the US goverment with regard to its willingness to deplatform accounts from imperialism-targeted nations like Iran, Venezuela, Russia and China means we can only except this bias to go one way with regard to imperialist narrative management.

The fact that this "Birdwatch" program will most likely be used to determine the dominant narrative on disputed events like potential false flags and what's happening in nations like China and Syria means it's obnoxious that Twitter's post promoting it features an imaginary account saying "Whales are not real! They're robots funded by the government to watch us!!" As though that sort of indisputable falsehood is the sort of post this program will actually be targeting rather than people expressing doubts about things like Russian hackers and the White Helmets.

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