The Right is Building Its Own Platforms w/ Jacob Silverman
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Impacts of the Pandemic on Content Moderation
i feel like one thing that we saw in the kind of maybe the earlier 2010s is that you know i guess the right hadn't been radicalized to such a degree but also content moderation wasn't necessarily always as strong. Especially when we move into like the mid 2010s you have more of a radicalization happening on the right and platforms feeling like they need to up their moderation game. I remember early in the pandemic i had like a tweet blocked or my account was like suspended or something on twitter for a short period of time because i tweeted about bill gates and vaccines. That was just automatically flagged and i was suspended for it right so you can see how these things were kind of affecting
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