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Twitter: We can't get rid of Nazis because we'd have to ban Republicans
Republicans sound like Nazis too often to make it easy for Twitter to get rid of bigots.
Twitter is running into obstacles in trying to eliminate white supremacists from its platform because the Republican Party has adopted so much of the same rhetoric.
An employee of the company argued at an internal, all-hands meeting that "on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material," Vice reported on Thursday.
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Twitter has long struggled with how to create and enforce rules to keep hate speech off its platform. But by so often echoing racists and making their hateful messages so central to the conservative cause, members of the Republican Party — including the party's leader — Republicans have muddied the waters and made it an all but impossible task. - Share Blue
Twitter is running into obstacles in trying to eliminate white supremacists from its platform because the Republican Party has adopted so much of the same rhetoric.
An employee of the company argued at an internal, all-hands meeting that "on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material," Vice reported on Thursday.
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Twitter has long struggled with how to create and enforce rules to keep hate speech off its platform. But by so often echoing racists and making their hateful messages so central to the conservative cause, members of the Republican Party — including the party's leader — Republicans have muddied the waters and made it an all but impossible task. - Share Blue
That's what we've been saying all along. Nice to hear that computer algorithms make it abundantly clear.
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