[ExI] musk dumps another pile of internal documents

[Gadersd]

A bunch of my family members had bad reactions to the Covid vaccine, including myself. I was shocked at the overwhelmingly positive commentary on the vaccine online. I suspected then that there was censorship of negative experiences with the vaccine.

> On Dec 8, 2022, at 11:47 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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>> ...  Shine a bright light into every shadow.  spike
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> OK suppose they did, spike.  What is the big deal?
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> The big deal is that Twitter may have suppressed negative information about
> the Covid vaccine.  I have personally spoken to people who had negative
> reactions to the stuff.  I never posted about it online.  There were those
> who were seeking out anything anywhere about bad reactions to those
> vaccines, so any post would be amplified 100 times.
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> Twitter decided to deal with it by limiting the reach of those posts.
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> OK then, I understand the motive, but think about it: what if... a lot of
> people were getting those bad reactions, say 10% of the population, then the
> social media companies worked together to suppress the 10%, creating an
> illusion that the vaccines were perfectly safe when they were really mostly
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> Then we found out... they aren't particularly effective.  So... mostly safe,
> somewhat effective.  Twitter helped create the illusion that they are
> perfectly safe and highly effective.  They did this by shadow banning while
> claiming they were not shadow banning.
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> Twitter can still do this.  The latest policy doesn't actually say they will
> stop.
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> spike
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