elections
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Twitter Briefly Grows a Spine, Says It Was an Accident
What many might have hailed as Twitter setting an example by restricting engagement with U.S. President Donald Trump’s misleading and incredulous tweets about his election loss was, according to the company, an accident. Hold your fanfare. The company has since reversed course, fully restored engagement to Trump’s tweets, and ostensibly let the beginnings of its…
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Facebook Experiments With Being Less Awful, Says Not to Get Used to It or Anything
Has Facebook learned jack shit from the past few nightmare years? Not really, per a report in the New York Times on Tuesday. Facebook only started giving more weight to reputable publishers in the News Feed days after the 2020 election and doesn’t plan on making that a long-term thing. Executives on its policy team…
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Great, We’re at the ‘8kun’s Admin Is an Election Security Expert’ Stage of This Bullshit
Since his loss in the Nov. 3 elections, Donald Trump has largely dipped out of public view and occupied his time in some gold-plated panic room, issuing a ridiculous series of tweets claiming victory in various states and ordering his cartoon parody of a campaign legal team to sally forth and step on rakes while…
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‘Free Speech’ Social Network Parler Tops App Store Downloads After Trump Loses Election
Parler, the Twitter alternative for conservatives where users can say anything they want without fear of censorship (except for an arbitrary list of terms conservatives don’t like), is taking off in the wake of Donald Trump’s defeat against Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.