Posted on 03/04/2021 7:27:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In addition to readily censoring conservatives, the social media platform has also cracked down on users sharing COVID-19 “misinformation.”
Amidst the heavy-handed censorship, Alison Fauci has been working at the company since graduating in 2014, The National Pulse can reveal.
“She works as a software engineer and, according to her LinkedIn profile, was focused on developing “ad formats for the Twitter for Android app.” (Her LinkedIn profile has since been made private or deleted),” Heavy magazine summarizes.
Alison Fauci maintains a profile on Twitter’s official blog, with one entry from November 2017 entitled “Introducing Serial: improved data serialization on Android.”
“Smooth timeline scrolling on the Twitter for Android app is important for the user experience, and we’re always looking for ways to improve it. With some profiling, we discovered that serializing and deserializing data to and from the database using standard Android Externalizable classes was taking around 15% of the UI thread time,” the blog post begins.
The position at the social media company, however, appears to represent a conflict of interest given the platform’s decision to censor COVID-19 information that goes against the diktats of her father – who notoriously insisted there was “no reason” to wear a mask.
In early March, Twitter decided to broadly ban any tweet that “could place people at a higher risk of transmitting COVID-19.”
Primarily, the platform vowed to crack down on tweets that represent a “denial of expert guidance.”
“Encouragement to use fake or ineffective treatments, preventions, and diagnostic techniques” and “misleading content purporting to be from experts or authorities” were other categories targeted by the social media platform.
And the platform has used its powers to censor users who defy the recommendations of Alison Fauci’s father.
A high-profile example of this censorship is the platform’s decision to ban Donald Trump’s son from the platform for “posting misinformation about hydroxychloroquine” – a potential treatment for COVID-19.
Twitter ordered Donald Trump Jr. to delete the misleading tweet, adding that it would “limit some account functionality for 12 hours.”
The platform also removed videos of doctors holding a press conference on Capitol Hill to defend the potential treatment which had not yet garnered support from Fauci.
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I question the premise.
jeeeez. software engineers have zero clout. there are plenty of valid reasons to hate twitter and be suspicious of fauci. this isn’t one of them.
Well, well, well...imagine that! These people are all connected.
As a software engineer myself, this is a nothing burger.
Actually, it’s facepalm worthy.
“jeeeez. software engineers have zero clout. there are plenty of valid reasons to hate twitter and be suspicious of fauci. this isn’t one of them.”
Would they have hired her if she was Trump’s daughter?
The Power Elite...
But either way, she's not the one making the censorship decisions.
Falsie has a conflict with common sense...
Absolute non-story. Speaking as someone with governance / conflict of interest experience this isn’t even 2% of the risk of, say, Donald Trump (correctly) delegating control of his businesses to a relative while in public office - but then adding a whole raft of other family members to the payroll and then using the family hotels during campaigns.
If there is nothing untoward in having the White House making decisions that directly benefit the Trump corporation, there’s definitely no story here.
If anyone thinks this stinks, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. By all means press it, but done be surprised if objective analysis indicates far higher risks existed with Trump and his hangers-on.
On the closed thread the opportunity to write code is mentioned.
A BUCF officer would be all over it if a software engineer tried that on. Source code has to be booked into change management systems, checked against the design scope, and if the code does anything it shouldn’t it’ll be spotted, audited and pulled apart in a forensic code review. That’s all before it even progresses out of dev/test (dummy system) into a preproduction testing phase.
By the time the code goes live anything dodgy will have been captured, reverse engineered and removed. And the author of the code would be facing disciplinary action.
bttt
I wonder how many other Rat kin are employed by big tech?
I'm sure they're all eminently qualified.
BUT..........................is she banging Dorsey?
‘Rats are an incestuous bunch.
Ugly chick gets a modeling job because of mama.
Ugly chick gets a big dollar media job because of HER mama.
REALLY ugly chick gets hundreds of thousand of greenbacks cause HER mama is a congresscritter.
The list goes on..................
Which Suspends People For Disagreeing With Her Father. For which statement his first or the one that he contradicts himself? Or both?
If she was Trump’s daughter he’d have nothing to do with their decision unless she had some active role in the family business or held a political office.
A good colleague of mine is related by blood to a senior politician and they had to prove their professionalism demands separation from their relative’s position. If makes no difference which side of the political fence that relative is on.
In the UK, even a junior accountant cannot hold stock in a firm their office is responsible for auditing irrespective of politics, unless they prove beyond all doubt that their holdings cannot in any way influence the audit.
There is no exception. Not for conservatives, not for liberals, not for woke lefties. It isn’t a political issue.
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