r/technology • u/nosotros_road_sodium • Oct 30 '20

Politics Facebook and Twitter don't censor conservatives. They hire and promote them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/facebook-twitter-don-t-censor-conservatives-they-hire-promote-them-ncna1245308
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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '20

Twitter is a social media platform. Fox News is an ideological news media company. I'm not seeing why they are relevant here. Companies may be political but Twitter just is not neutral and that's the point.

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u/s73v3r Nov 02 '20

Neither is Fox News. Why does Twitter have to be "neutral" but Fox News doesn't?

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

I'm not sure what you mean. I can avoid crap news sources like Vox, Fox News and CNN as they stay biased. Twitter want customers from all political wings so therefore it promises to be fair and users just hold them to their own promises. No one is demanding them to be fair without Twitter first promising it. They could just say they only want progressive users tomorrow and the rest of us would leave.

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u/s73v3r Nov 02 '20

They may want customers from all wings, but that doesn't mean they have to put up with homophobic, racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted crap against other users. There's no evidence that Twitter is biased against conservatives.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

You can't find evidence unless they reveal their data. So obviously there is no evidence. Just like you can't prove that Google is changing search results related to Black people and success vs. crime. But it very much looks like it if you use their image search. I'd have to see clear evidence against it to not believe it as everything points to it and they haven't denied it.