Did you actually listen to what he said or did you just read the tweet and are reacting to the phrase “algorithmically censored”. Friendly advice, don’t take any tweet Commodore posts here at face value. Slowing distribution of information that is flagged as potential disinformation is a rational choice. Musk has mentioned exploring similar things with Twitter as an alternative to outright censoring problematic tweets. This Hunter laptop censorship scandal always struck me as overblown. Nobody who was minimally informed had any trouble finding out about the content of the NY Post article, if they cared one bit about it. The issue here is that Trumpers wanted to manipulate the election by exploiting the distribution algorithms on social media platforms to spread this salacious news, and they were ticked off that the people controlling those platforms decided not to play along due to risks of a repeat of 2016 election Russian disinfo.
Speaks to the big issue of 1- election misinformation exists 2- it can be very destructive to a democracy 3- smart actors (well-funded foreign players and internal players) would use it strategically - a few days before the election so that there is enough time to be outraged but not enough time for correction/defense 4- social media platforms are the primary vehicles for such attacks 5- (the hard part) how do you protect democracy from being damaged by these attacks A congress that is interested in protecting American democracy would come up with some law to do so. But we are at a point where one party leader has actively requested Russia to interfere in our election and has tried to get another foreign actor (Ukraine) to do the dirty work for them. One party is willing to destroy American democracy to win. The only way to protect American democracy is to vote that party out of power at all levels.
The flip side of this is: 1. True information that would be damaging to a politician or party may exist. 2. The voters would like to have that information. 3. Dedicated members of the public (possibly funded by opposition candidates) may discover this information close in time to the election. 4. Social media platforms are the primary vehicle to disseminate this information. 5. If tech companies censor this information (or slow the spread or whatever), the public is less well informed about the candidates and what they have done that might make someone else a better choice, and may chose to exercise this power in a partisan way as well, giving Google and Facebook extraordinary power to select who is running the government.
Shows how relevant the whataboutism of Trump in the post I was replying too. Sweet burn on them breh.
I Care if he committed a crime. The justice system always have a different set of rules for white powerful folks. But let's be real, conservative only care about hunter cause he's a biden. If hunter was a republican, folks wouldn't bat an eye
I love how these so-called Christian Conservatives have forgotten about the prodigal son in the Bible. Jesus is telling Christians to actually do what Joe Biden has done here and continue to love and support your son even when they go off and mess up. If you are a Christian you should listen to Jesus here and show some respect for Biden here that he obviously loves his son still even after all these mess ups.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/09/timothy-thibault-fbi-agent-alleged-to.html "Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent alleged to have interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden, was assigned by the Washington Field Office as 'point man' to manage whistleblower Tony Bobulinski..." by noreply@blogger.com (Ann Althouse) "... the first son’s former business partner, before the 2020 election — but he suppressed his damning revelations, sources say. Bobulinski spent over five hours secretly being interviewed by the FBI on Oct. 23, 2020, about his inside knowledge of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s business deals with China. The previous day he had revealed in a press conference that Joe Biden was the 'Big Guy' due to get a 10% cut of a lucrative joint venture with Chinese energy firm CEFC, according to an email found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop. Bobulinski gave the FBI the contents of three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and his business partners, along with emails and financial documents detailing the Biden family’s corrupt influence peddling operation in foreign countries during Joe’s vice presidency. But his evidence appears to have fallen into the same black hole at the FBI as Hunter’s laptop, never to be seen again...." The NY Post reports.
Murdoch owns both the Post and WSJ, which effectively stifles accusations of a Concerted Media Blackout. Seems to be the case where one hand eats the food while the other wipes the ****.
Thing is, I've seen nothing personally damning to Joe Biden in all this. It all comes down to "Hunter Biden's laptop", as if repeating the words makes it substantive. As such, it's the Holy Grail of stories, especially among the pro-Trump evangelical / fundamentalist Christian types who don't read anything (why read when the unholy triumvirate of Carlson - Hannity - Ingraham can tell you what you need to know?). Hillary's new emails, Hillary's new emails, repeat repeat.....and they turned out to be nothing. But planting the seed is all it took to swing an election. Not covering the Hunter Biden story during the 2020 election cycle doesn't change the fact: what provable smoking gun is actually on the hard drive? Provable. Not what Giuliani says to the media. Provable. I'll grant that Hunter Biden is a greedy worthless p.o.s. trading on his name. No one can argue that. He and Donald Jr have that in common. Maybe they can share some coke and laugh it off together.
Neither false or true, but the noise is real. I'm not a fan of the situation where Post gets to cry wolf with a larger leeway for accuracy then come back claiming they were suppressed because one of the stories stuck, On the story, it looks like that fbi guy could've been a handler or fixer, but "looks like" is only a starter, not a conclusion.
