Twitter just showed how easily we can stop misinformation

CNN ^ | January 3, 2022 | Kara Alaimo

[artichokegrower]

On Sunday, Twitter confirmed it had permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for violating the company's policy against sharing misinformation about Covid-19.

[artichokegrower]

If social networks applied such a rule against misinformation uniformly, it would also send an important signal to other users that they, too, would be putting their accounts at risk by sharing inaccurate information. That would also likely radically stem the flow of false claims.

Too bad that wasn't done to stem the Russian Collusion conspiracies during the last election.

[Recovering_Democrat]

What happened? The lady gave her interpretation of VAERS statistics, right?

CNN is fake news.

[rktman]

One assclowns perceived misinformation is another person’s truth.

[rlmorel]

You crazy person. Who would even SUGGEST such a thing as applying a standard evenly on information?

[ClearCase_guy]

The official propaganda organ of the One Party State sings the praises of censorship.

[moovova]

Remember the Alaimo.

[skeeter]

I sure wish we’d hear republican politicians using stronger language against these authoritarians & fascists.

All we hear from them is milquetoast mewling about censorship.

Surely they are aware of how dangerous this behavior is, how un-American it is.

Such lukewarm resistance leads one to believe most elected republican officials, and especially the leadership, dont have that big a problem with it.

[DoodleBob]

If social networks applied such a rule against misinformation banned people we don't like uniformly, it would also send an important signal to other users undesirables that they, too, would be putting their accounts at risk by sharing inaccurate information speaking freely. That would also likely radically stem the flow of false claims tank their stock as most of the normal people in the nation leave for greener pastures.

[Westbrook]

There is no such thing as “misinformation”.
There is only information.
“Misinformation” is a Soviet concept employed to disparage and censor opposition.

In a FREE country, the people are at liberty to determine whether to accept information or not, believe it or not, even consider it or not.

The difference between Truth and Lies can be determined by FREE people with FREE access to the FACTS.

[metmom]

Censorship is easy for those who control the medium.

But it’s still censorship.

[lurk]

Misinformation. We are not trying to conceal our stalinisms anymore.

[SmokingJoe]

Twitter hasn’t stopped anything. Mtg is still on Gab, GETTR etc.

[Skywise]

This is frightening and a direct attack on America and our way of life.

[Flick Lives]

There is no such thing as “misinformation”.
There is only information.
“Misinformation” is a Soviet concept employed to disparage and censor opposition.

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Nailed it!

[Antoninus]

See? It's not censorship. It's the noble stopping of disinformation. And "disinformation" is anything that goes against the narrative of the hard left.

Get it?

[Altura Ct.]

F this As*clown and all who think like her.

[fireman15]

[kosciusko51]

1984 was a warning, not a users manual...

[Myrddin]

Twitter demonstrated how to silence dissent short of killing dissenters outright.

[missnry]

Ministry of Twitter Truth - Sponsored by the Democrat Communist Party.
How brave they are! /s