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| Twitter is a social media service. |
Started: March 21, 2006
Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams
Subgroup: Vine
Owner: Elon Musk
Staff: 3900
Constitutes: Social medium
X, formerly called Twitter, is a website which allows users to publish short messages. Users can post (tweet), like, repost (or retweet), comment and quote posts, and direct message other registered users.
Users interact with X through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its application programming interfaces (APIs).
Bots
Although bots on social media are a known thing, the cognitive effect of it isn't reported often. In 2018 "Twitter" admitted that more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts used the platform to post automated material about the 2016 US election, manipulating discourse to either confuse and derail discussions or promote Donald Trump as a preferable president."[1]
In Australia, during the COVID-19/Pandemic, a Carnegie Mellon study found that almost half of the Twitter accounts calling for an end to lockdown orders were likely bots. Looking at more than 200 million tweets that referenced COVID-19, it found that 82 per cent of the top 50 retweeters were bots.[2]
Staff
77th Brigade
Twitter’s ‘head of editorial’ for Middle East is officer in a UK Army propaganda unit the 77th Brigade. Gordon MacMillan has been working at Twitter for since 2012 and has been its Head of Editorial, Europe, the Middle East and Africa since July 2016.
A spokesman from Twitter told The Independent that it was an “open, neutral, and independent service” and that a review of Mr MacMillan’s service as an army reserve psychological warfare volunteer had found no violation of its policies.[3]
Nick Pacilio
Nick Pacilio, per 2021 the senior communications manager for Twitter, was Vice President Kamala Harris' previous press secretary from 2011-14, while Harris was the attorney general of California, [4], and announced the removal of Trump Tweets[5].
A fascinating fact check by Microsoft-owned MSN created the impression in its headline and article that this connection is untrue. Out of the many social media accounts talking of this, they picked a Facebook post to debunk that somewhat imprecisely claimed "Kamela Harris' press secretary is the chief of communications at Twitter. Let that sink in"[6], The MSN 'fact-check' focuses on the word "current", and states "the claim that Harris' press secretary is the senior communications manager of Twitter is FALSE, based on our research. There is no evidence that her current press secretary, Sabrina Singh, was ever employed by Twitter.[7], while the same article in an example of doublespeak correctly confirms the core of the claim, "Harris' former press secretary now works at Twitter; he became an employee there after working for Harris."
Censorship
- Full article: Twitter/Censorship
- Full article: Twitter/Censorship
In 2016 Craig Murray was "ghost banned" by Twitter, resulting in a 90% decrease in traffic to his site from that site.[11] Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, reported in 2017 that he had been "shadowbanned" because of his writings about Donald Trump.[12] Twitter was an active participant in the COVID-19 censorship, and in August 2020 it began censoring all links to BitChute videos.[13]
Twitter Files
- Full article: Twitter Files
- Full article: Twitter Files
In 2022, journalists and Elon Musk released some files indicating a conspiracy of intelligence agencies and certain politicians to censor info on Twitter.
Disinformation and misinformation
Documents leaked in 2018 suggested that the Integrity Initiative was using "clusters" of journalists to try to promote Russophobia[14] and also to smear Jeremy Corbyn.[15]
In August 2021, they will test out a "report function" to prevent "misinformation".[16]
Opinions about X/Twitter
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“The medium is the message, and the message of Twitter is: I hate you.”
James Corbett (31 March 2018) [17]
Twitter on Wikispooks
References
- ↑ https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-bad-is-twitter-s-bot-problem-20220519-p5amp2.html
- ↑ https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-bad-is-twitter-s-bot-problem-20220519-p5amp2.html
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twitter-executive-british-army-officer-psyops-gordon-macmillan-a9127036.html
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-pacilio-24b74130/
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-nick-pacilio-twitter-communications-officer
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218164840136743&set=a.2152370933093&type=3&theater
- ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-claim-that-kamala-harris-current-press-secretary-works-for-twitter-is-false/ar-BB1aiSV1
- ↑ https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2019/05/12/expert-psychologist-blocked-on-twitter-for-expressing-clinical-opinion-on-transgenderism-n65799
- ↑ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/13/twitter-blacklists-famed-gender-dysphoria-researcher-ray-blanchard/
- ↑ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/twitter-locks-gender-experts-account-for-calling-transsexualism-a-mental-disorder/
- ↑ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/twitter-facebook-censorship-mainstream-media-denial/
- ↑ http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159566176596/am-i-shadowbanned-on-twitter
- ↑ https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-censors-all-links-to-bitchute/
- ↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/11/british-government-behind-secret-anti-russian-disinformation-campaign.html
- ↑ http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/12/britains-institute-for-statecraft-finally-exposed-top-secret-integrity-initiative-blown-wide-open/
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58258377/
- ↑ https://www.corbettreport.com/deletetwitter/