Poilievre, Musk, Bannon, Lavrov, etc. would like the lines blurred.
Bruce Arthur, not so much, thankfully.
The difference between #StateAffiliatedMedia and #PublicMedia:
@chadloder
In the meantime, Musk removes #StateAffiliatedMedia tag from China, Iran and Russia State affiliated media....
Poilievre, Musk, Bannon, Lavrov, etc. would like the lines blurred.
Bruce Arthur, not so much, thankfully.
The difference between #StateAffiliatedMedia and #PublicMedia:
NPR used to be an explicit example in #Twitter's policy document on what should *not* be labeled "state-affiliated media". Then #ElonMusk 🤡 retconned the policy...
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/05/npr-was-twitters-example-of-what-should-not-be-labeled-state-affiliated-media-then-musk-added-the-label-and-retconned-the-policy/ #NPR #StateAffiliatedMedia
For years I’ve joked that everyone who hasn’t thought about trust & safety thinks that it’s easy: just do what I would do. The assumption is that there’s a “right” set of ways to handle these q…
AUDIO: Twitter IS "State Affliated Media"
https://invidious.citizen4.eu/watch?v=E0lU4S1mI-s&listen=1
#twitter #turdSite #RTBan #witchHunt #forcedNews #stateAffiliatedMedia #australia #aspI #cIa #thinkTanks #fakeTanks #podcast
Regardless of whether you agree with Galloway's argument or not, this all overlooks the innate absurdity of a government-tied social media corporation like Twitter labeling other people "state-affiliated media". Twitter is state-affiliated media. It has been working in steadily increasing intimacy with the United States government since the US empire began pressuring Silicon Valley platforms to regulate content in support of establishment power structures following the 2016 election. In 2020 Twitter was one of the many Silicon Valley corporations who coordinated directly with US government agencies to determine what content should be censored in order to "secure" the presidential election. In 2021 Twitter announced that it was orchestrating mass purges of foreign accounts on the advice of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which receives funding from many government institutions including the US State Department. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with relevant links: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/twitter-is-state-affiliated-media?s=w Thanks for watching! Subscribe to caitlinjohnstone.com for email updates on all my new stuff.