964: Greta Thunberg deletes old tweet about human extinction by 2023 [Podcast]
Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast
Dr. Taylor Marshall
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🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Five years ago, Greta told us that humanity would come to an end unless we stop using fossil |
| 0:08.0 | fuels. |
| 0:09.0 | Turns out it didn't happen and she deleted the tweet. |
| 0:11.4 | My good friend, Jack Bessobix here with me today to talk about it because he tweeted about |
| 0:15.4 | it. |
| 0:16.4 | He says, Greta, why did you delete this? |
| 0:19.0 | You can see the tweet on the screen and the date from 2018. |
| 0:24.2 | And now you're getting fact checked on this, Jack. |
| 0:26.1 | What's going on? |
| 0:28.6 | So this is one of the weirdest of all the controversies I've been in. |
| 0:33.4 | They're all weird, but this is one of the weird ones because so catching someone for |
| 0:38.8 | deleting a tweet when you go into it's one of the most fun things about Twitter. |
| 0:42.8 | It's when you can catch one of these people who's in in a high position or has high influence |
| 0:49.1 | like a Greta thumbberg and you catch them in in in a lie, you catch them in a misrepresentation |
| 0:57.0 | and then you catch them covering their tracks. |
| 1:00.0 | And this is so great. |
| 1:01.0 | So Twitter is not just a you know a live feed because Twitter is also an archive of things |
| 1:06.5 | people said in the past. |
| 1:08.4 | So I can go and tweet mine anyone on any topic and then of course there's also a timestamp. |
| 1:14.2 | So this just makes for start of the fun of you have to look at Twitter as a video game. |
| 1:17.6 | That's what I do. |
| 1:18.6 | Right. |
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