How Twitter Censored COVID Dissent - David Zweig

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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David Zweig is an investigative reporter who has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and Wired. He was among the journalists invited by Elon Musk to contribute to the ‘Twitter Files’ investigation. Zweig is the author of ‘Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion’ and the forthcoming ‘AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION’ which explores the debacle in American schools during the pandemic.

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	So, it's this idea of like, is a journalist just like a megaphone, you know, legacy media outlets
0:06.5	by and large, were all on board with a certain narrative?
0:11.3	People needed a place like Twitter where they could be exposed to different ideas, or some
0:16.2	of those ideas completely nuts.
0:18.2	Yes, but many of those ideas were absolutely legitimate.
0:22.3	This is a place for legitimate debate by people who understand the issues.
0:27.1	Those views were suppressed in many instances.
0:30.8	That is very troubling.
0:33.0	There was a Trump tweet about how he said something like, don't be afraid anymore of
0:38.7	code.
0:39.7	If something to that effect, does this go against our guidelines?
0:42.7	Shouldn't we be like, you know, labeling this as misleading or take it down?
0:46.7	And some of the other executives had to write back and say, optimism is not against our
0:52.7	policy.
0:54.4	My God, this like super high level person actually even entertained the idea for something
0:59.4	like that to be suppressed.
1:00.9	That alone was like kind of astonishing.
1:04.0	It was just a bizarre experience that I will never get over.
1:09.1	Like, it's permanently altered me.
1:21.0	Hello.
1:22.2	Welcome.
1:23.2	It's a trigonometry on the road from the USA.
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