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I'd love to believe that twitter could be a counterbalance, but it can also be an amplifier - any lie repeated long and loud enough becomes truth - particularly when twitter streams are "algorithmicly driven", and can therefore be filtered to give whatever sentiment more precedence.

Haa twitter stopped trump's rise?

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Or "of course Bill Cosby is guilty"

No he isn't. People shouldn't be allowed to get people charged on "he said, she said" crimes 19 years after the fact.

That's my point. The amplifier of media, old and new, allows this kind of topic to be a thing, when by all ethical standards, it should not be.

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