>The censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election by Big Tech social media companies like Facebook and Twitter marked a significant turning point in the relationship between Big Tech and democracy.
Not to anyone who's studied journalism. That story was clearly nothing more than a gambit to smear someone. It doesn't even qualify as 'censorship.'
Last I checked journalism writes for non-journalists. Maybe we should be rethinking these snarky attitudes about who should receive public blasphemy and who shouldn't.
I think what the author means is that previously, Big Tech has tried to set a more fact-agnostic tone and operated as though the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether the source was reliable rested with the reader.
There's a definite shift away from that mindset in the past (approximately) year for both Facebook and Twitter.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 26.3 ms ] threadNot to anyone who's studied journalism. That story was clearly nothing more than a gambit to smear someone. It doesn't even qualify as 'censorship.'
Last I checked journalism writes for non-journalists. Maybe we should be rethinking these snarky attitudes about who should receive public blasphemy and who shouldn't.
There's a definite shift away from that mindset in the past (approximately) year for both Facebook and Twitter.