We know that twitter’s moderation teams tend to be young graduates, few if any of them with journalism training. It is abundantly clear that many of them make decisions based on vibes, not evidence.
Haugen’s interest in Ireland is motivated by the fact that this country is a key location for Facebook and other social media giants
Tim wrote yesterday about the wider media hypocrisy around the lab-leak story (the idea that the Coronavirus was accidentally released from a science laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than occurring naturally in a wet market) but this particular element of the global about-face on the idea is worth some dedicated discussion: “Facebook will no longer […]