(Steve Watson) As hearings took place before Congress on Big Tech’s use of Section 230 to censor content, the most interesting revelation came from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who seemed to admit that the platform relies on outrage mobs to flag up posts that are then deemed to be ‘misinformation’.
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by Steve Watson, October 19th, 2020
Dorsey made the admission as Senator Rick Scott was questioning him, noting “We don’t have a general policy around misleading information and misinformation… We rely upon people calling that speech out.”
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Twitter users provided a helpful translation:
Dorsey says Twitter doesn’t have a general policy on misinformation. “we rely on people calling it out.” Even Twitter is outsourcing policy making to progressive Twitter.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) October 28, 2020
Who yells the loudest gets their way…
— K-cup Barista (@mdphdfacs) October 29, 2020
If I was a bigger troll, with a bigger following, I'd try to report one of Jack's tweets until it got removed by the algorithm.
— Al Sadius (@Alsadius) October 28, 2020
While Dorsey admits to the censorship mobs at Twitter, the fact that he recently went on the record with his disapproval infers that he doesn’t have full control over the actions of the platform:
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