Deplatforming is out of favor in Silicon Valley. But it works.
A new study in Nature finds that Twitter's mass suspension of 70,000 QAnon-linked accounts after Jan. 6 meaningfully reduced the overall circulation of fake and hyperpartisan news on the platform. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The pervasive myth that deplatforming "only gives legitimacy and strength" makes little sense in most cases. Bad actors are on certain platforms because they need those to have an effect. Otherwise they'd be elsewhere.
Yeah, that's obviously why he's been fighting tooth and nail to get the court cases against him thrown out, and tried his hardest to delegitimize the process.
Those people either don't *think* about what they're saying, or are deliberately mendacious. Frequently both, I think.
on a somewhat unrelated note, i find it hilarious that Proud Boy/MAGA/Incel social media is just a stew of paranoid snitches hunting kompromat on each other right now. Like, how hard could it be to find a sympathetic FBI agent to coordinate with?
wankers...
