X slapped a “warning” on links to NPR’s follow-up reporting on the Trump campaign’s altercation in Arlington National Cemetery, suggesting the link is “unsafe.”
  • NuXCOM_90Percent
    141·
    3 months ago

    guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on.

    A story where? On twitter where it is marked as unsafe and full of lies?

    This is not the streisand effect. This is demonstrating the power of literally controlling the media to a degree that even rupert murdock gets envious of. Because if your news channel is spewing garbage? Other news channels and “grass roots” efforts will correct it. But if the platform they use to correct it is the thing that is compromised?

    Shit like this? The trump story (that was never going to get traction) is irrelevant. What is relevant is musk and his handlers advertising what twitter can do and how long twitter is willing to “hold out” to regulation attempts.

    It is the same logic behind apple making it clear they will resist information requests until there is a court order or Proton outright telling its users what it will and won’t give law enforcement and governments. Except this is marketing toward those governments, not the users.