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@davidzweig: 1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By...…
Some Key Takeaways:
The Trump White House was involved in "misinformation" culling, but mostly to stop panic buying.
Once Biden got in office, the White House began targeting specific people, regardless of whether they were spreading true information or not, and apparently harassing Twitter to have them removed.
Machine Learning AI for moderation shows it's weakness as it appears to be learning from humans who are already biased against anything dissenting from the CDC's narrative. All programmers know the lesson from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
The moderators were so biased and ill-informed themselves that they managed to remove posts for spreading Covid misinformation that was outside of the CDC's guidelines, because the post had showed CDC information. It was specifically a post which identified that Covid-19 was NOT the leading cause of death among children: an objective fact that has never been successfully challenged by any evidence whatsoever.
The hysteria and paranoid delusions of the Blue Anon shamen working at Twitter caused them to enforce their delusions, which then caused the AI to also function as a Blue Anon Warchief, spreading the madness and hysteria by targeting more individuals based on the bias it was fed, regardless of factual evidence.
FBI Infiltrator James Bakers specifically cited a Trump tweet that said: "Don't be afraid of Covid" as Covid Misinformation. Groomed recruit Yoel Roth actually had to explain to him that "Optimistic Sentiment" isn't incitement to harm. I consider this to be the FBI's effort at attempting their own version of "Project Fear".
Here's an important quote from Twitter:
They think "malinformation" information which is true but dangerous, is considered a form of viral transmission. This is how they can medically rationalize a medical quarantine, into building a camp for political dissent.
Why did the white house and FBI care so much about COVID "misinformation"?
Because it's part of their overall Information Warfare operation against the general public, so that they can become more accommodating to the establishment narrative, ensure the power of the political establishment, and guarantee the introduction of a Covid Pass as a mechanism to introduce a digital wallet and a surveillance state?
I think I got all of it.
The weaponizing of AI in this way is even more concerning than the propaganda campaign itself. We're entering a new age of information warfare before anyone's even adapted to the previous weaponry.
It's not even weaponizing it (not properly). This is actually wildly lazy programming.
To be honest, the FBI's cultivation of the moderators themselves is closer to what happened with the AI: overwhelm the moderation system with reports, and try to slant their enforcement by telling them they aren't doing enough, or that they did it wrong, with your "experts".
The AI and the people were actually treated the same way.
Part of this was the unwillingness to accept that they were wrong about their initial projections so they kept overhyping the virus
Was it that they were unwilling to accept it, or that they didn't care since the numbers were so useful.
CNN's standing here screaming that "300,000 people died from Covid because of Drumpf!"
Meanwhile, that's a "with Covid" number, and the initial estimates (from the same person) for the US was: 20 million dead by December 2020, and for the UK: 1 million dead by December 2020.
That’s true. Also they would go hysterical about case counts and you would have to look at the fine print to see that the vast majority of people getting covid were asymptomatic or mild. This could’ve been a great opportunity to encourage healthier lifestyles since obesity made a big difference with covid suffering
But why would they encourage healthier lifestyles, when it's much easier to get a population to acquiesce to your demands by promoting worse lifestyles that make them dependent on you?
It's the same thing that the Chinese learned: Liberals (Liberty-based people), think that a lack of food causes riots and revolutions. But that's only when they're already fed. If you starve your population so badly that they don't even have the calories to resist, then you'll never have revolutions. If you overfeed them, same difference.
Great point. Also the CDC openly rooted for the rioting thugs while at the same time telling us covid was the most dangerous thing ever. And people still took them seriously!
archive https://archive.ph/E8l7z
Thank you!
Here's the link to the accompanying article: https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate
Here's the Nitter Link: https://nitter.net/i/status/1607378386338340867
Here's the Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867
I'm really enjoying these releases that confirm that not only were Trump people 100% right about what leftists were doing with Twitter, we were actually understating it by quite a bit. It's nice to have completely ironclad 100% proof to back it up, but also frustrating because there's absolutely no way to make leftists acknowledge it.
Diversity hires in twitter “trust and safety” shut down harvard professor of epidemiology Martin Kulldorff.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-files-how-twitter-rigged-covid-debate
He wasn’t able to share nor interact with his tweet that was 100% correct : “kids and people who recovered from covid don’t need the MRNA vaccine”
I wonder how many died due to myocarditis because big tech wasn’t allowing this important information out?
If Alex Jones can be sued for 2.75 trillion then so can google/meta!