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You were warned. Now it begins.
Since the implementation of Twitter's new algorithmic timeline back in February of this year, conservatives, libertarians and anti-establishment dissidents alike have been waiting for the social media platform to interfere in the current U.S. election cycle. Now it seems that there is clear evidence of Twitter censoring the current Republican front-runner, Donald Trump.
A tweet sent from Trump's account at 3:04 PM EDT yesterday is not visible from his timeline, even when showing "Tweets and replies." That message included a video wherein Trump declared that "the establishment and special interests are absolutely killing our country."At the time of this writing, the tweet is still publicly accessible via a direct link and thus has not been deleted either by Twitter or by someone operating on the Trump account.
This archive.is link has a copy of the timeline taken before this article was published which clearly shows the tweet not appearing where it should be — between a tweet sent at 12:10 PM EDT and one sent at 3:27 PM EDT; it is possible that the tweet may be reintroduced to the timeline in order to hide the manipulation.
Today it's one Trump tweet, tomorrow it will be you.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:12AM
It can also face repercussions from users disappointed in such a decision, or undermine its own rhetoric about censorship.
This could easily have been a technical glitch, however.
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(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:43AM
Well Twitter is all for censorship via their Trust & Safety Council.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:04AM
A Trust and Safety Council sounds like what a dictatorship would setup after a putsch. Anything with professional agitator Anita Sarkeesian and the linguistic authoritarians from dangerousspeech.org is not going to promote free discussion.
Newspeak does not allow for facts that would interfere with xenophiles' beliefs. "We're all the same" and "everyone is equal" but "we get to decide what is acceptable."
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(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Wednesday April 27 2016, @01:44PM
a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective
adjective: alien
1.
belonging to a foreign country or nation.
noun
noun: alien; plural noun: aliens
1.
a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living.
Those bastards with their dictionaries, using words correctly! String 'em all up, I say.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:04AM
I thought so in the beginning. I doubt it now [soylentnews.org]
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:12AM
I already modded up your comment don't link it to me :(
lololololololololololololololol
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:24AM
Why, what's the danger?
(took me a while to get the post formatted so it landed quite low on the page. Oh, well, shameless plug then - you, Tork and another AC)
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:06AM
I agree with this practice completely. Even from a reader's perspective links to different parts of the same comments page seem vastly preferable to lengthy repetitions of the same information, if the same points keep getting made and you feel like taking the time to refute them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:00AM
Trump should repost his tweet and we can all see what happens.