they are caught, and you have to get out of the way to make it tick, as in, you can’t just call someone at facebook and say “hey i have elections coming up, can you censor all of opposition and handle me list of dissenters uwu” and expect them to comply. you have to pay spineless propagandists for hire PR agency to do that job for you
Actually, the government did just call up Twitter and tell them to censor things. That’s the whole point of the Matt Taibbi Twitter Files stories. But you also have other non-government groups policing the Internet, calling up Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc and demanding censorship.
ah yes, a story that ultimately comes from elon musk and elon musk only. that’s obviously true, because when musk has to choose between his own agenda and healthy public discourse, you can trust him to never stir shit in a way he thinks will favour him. we all know that he never proposed hyperloop to quash californian high speed rail, for example. he also obviously is completely neutral and has no agenda. you see, he unbanned all these russian propagandists, nazis and other shitbags just because he is such a free speech absolutist and entirely not because he wanted to
https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwpqmn/is-the-pr-industry-buying-influence-over-wikipedia
They’re probably smart enough to not get caught nowadays.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-azerbaijan-ilham-aliyev https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-azerbaijan-troll-farm
they are caught, and you have to get out of the way to make it tick, as in, you can’t just call someone at facebook and say “hey i have elections coming up, can you censor all of opposition and handle me list of dissenters uwu” and expect them to comply. you have to pay
spineless propagandists for hirePR agency to do that job for youwikipedia edit history is public record, so it’s more of an issue of combing through it. being not for profit and much more transparent than fb helps with that https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-russia-ukraine-propaganda-suspicious-edits-1849673060
Actually, the government did just call up Twitter and tell them to censor things. That’s the whole point of the Matt Taibbi Twitter Files stories. But you also have other non-government groups policing the Internet, calling up Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc and demanding censorship.
ah yes, a story that ultimately comes from elon musk and elon musk only. that’s obviously true, because when musk has to choose between his own agenda and healthy public discourse, you can trust him to never stir shit in a way he thinks will favour him. we all know that he never proposed hyperloop to quash californian high speed rail, for example. he also obviously is completely neutral and has no agenda. you see, he unbanned all these russian propagandists, nazis and other shitbags just because he is such a free speech absolutist and entirely not because he wanted to