The topic of Elon Musk’s Twitter disclosures this week was the censorship applied to posts made during the COVID pandemic. According to the statement, the posts were arranged according to the request of the US administration.
In recent weeks, Twitter has begun to share its secret files one by one. Elon Musk, came up with a new one. The subject of Musk’s disclosure files this time is Twitter’s Policy at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic it happened.
New information shared via David Zweig, Twitter’s COVID-19 discussions largely hand-managed showed. Twitter, even if it’s true Censoring information against the US administrationdiscrediting doctors and experts who opposed it, silencing even ordinary users who shared official data.
COVID content on Twitter was edited at the request of US presidents:
“The internal files I reviewed on Twitter while I was on duty for The Free Press show that both the Trump and Biden administrations were able to contain the platform’s pandemic content. according to their wishes showed that he was directly pressing Twitter admins to regulate.”
Moreover, not only Twitter, but also Google, Facebook, Microsoft and much more were involved:
Twitter documents showed that platforms acting under pressure from the US government are not limited to Twitter alone. Meetings held by the management Google, Facebook, Microsoft and various other technology companies also participated was officially documented.
Twitter’s content moderation was also not very healthy:
- A query tree that Twitter provides to third-party users to make decisions about Tweets.
Although content moderation on Twitter is usually done by artificial intelligence, in some countries, such as the Philippines, this moderation is done. responsibility of third parties was happening. However, these people were also moderating on issues where their expertise was not enough, and inevitably destroyed many health debates from the very beginning.
An example: An expert’s opinion on the vaccine controversy was directly censored:
The above tweet shared by Martin Kulldorf of Harvard Medical School met with a direct action by the Twitter management. Kulldorf tweeted that the vaccine is especially important for individuals in the high-risk category, those exposed to natural infection. don’t need the vaccine had suggested.
Twitter management, on the other hand, ruled that this Tweet violated the misinformation policies about COVID-19. Your opinion is that of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. against the (CDC) guideline expressed. The tweet was subsequently tagged as ‘misleading’.
But even opinions that ran parallel to the CDC were censored:
Twitter’s bots responsible for content moderation also occasionally ‘link’ Tweets that directly include CDC data.misleading‘ was tagged.
Moreover, some of the banned Tweets were responses to Tweets containing genuine misinformation. But instead of the main Tweets Tweets that presented correct data were labeled ‘misleading’.
Further disclosures will follow next week:
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, who is preparing to say goodbye to the CEO, announced that other details on the subject will be shared with experts next week.
It is still unclear whether Twitter’s disclosure files will lead to official investigations.
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