Deflating Balloon-gate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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How Did Twitter Block Block the Right?
Twitter's algorithm was set so that if a lot of users have blocked you, it takes that as a valid signal and it's correct. The key thing is that the number, it was the absolute number of blocks, not the relative number of blocks. So all the prominent right-wears who were blocked by these automatic automated sites got downgraded automatically by the algorithm. They're more of them than there are blocked the left. There's asymmetry there.
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