Serious question, did anyone else not believe the whole Twitter Files thing at first?

I was one of those people who thought it was all hype. Back when they first started dropping those threads in December 2022, I shrugged it off as drama. Then I read through the actual emails they posted. The one that got me was an internal chat where someone complained about a post being shared on Fox News and within 2 hours it was shadowbanned with no policy violation. That was specific enough to make me stop and think. Has anyone else had a moment where a concrete detail flipped their opinion on free speech stuff?

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robin48916d ago

Yeah I was the guy defending the algorithm until my own tweets got throttled. Oops.

willow_ellis16d ago

Funny you mention that, I had a similar moment where my friend's post about a local event got flagged as hate speech. It was literally a flyer for a charity car wash. There were like 20 likes on it. That really shook my trust in the whole moderation thing.