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the real question is not whether there was "shadowbanning" but whether such a thing would constitute election interference, the obvious answer to which is lmfao ofc not
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RT @elonmusk
@stillgray @bariweiss Yes
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601123235755487233
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twitter is not a govt institution nor a part of the electoral process
you can argue its a "public forum" but it's a private company and the rules for those haven't changed last time I checked
mb a nationalized public forum should exist but it ain't this and hence is irrelevant
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a broader q is how does twitter manipulating the information landscape of their platform differ from every other information campaign waged by every other political actor? what meaningfully differentiates it from political advertising or lobbying? are those election interference?
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perhaps what you mean to say instead is "I want people to vote the way they believe without anyone telling them what to think" but, consider that live in a society
anyway I don't even know who the strawman I'm arguing against is besides some rando npc repliers so nvm
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yes, they are! but not in the sense people mean, but rather the pedantic useless sense in which participating in an election causes interference in it. votes do not occur in a vacuum but are shaped by memetic forces, many of which are engineered and actively deployed