So Twitter bans a bunch of satire accounts for political reasons and the New York Times applauds the decision. This makes me incredibly sad but I guess it's to be expected.
If your political position is so weak that some jokes can damage it, maybe it's time to take a deep inward look. I don't see anyone calling on SNL to ban Trump impersonations.
Plenty of far right twitter accounts, these where designed to get banned for publicity.
I don't think they were. I think they were designed to be funny and characterize a particular ideology.
As I said in the other comment, this article gives one extremely mild example of incorrect election information and says "a few" of the accounts were participating in that. Why would you ban all of them, including the accounts not spreading misinformation?
Nazis are everywhere, after all.
And wow is it just embarrassing to see this "incorrect election information" thing being touted here. If someone was actually convinced that the election was a day later because they believed an NPC Twitter account they have only themselves to blame.
You don’t read something say that false and ignore it. You ignore or remember something independent of it’s true and then latter when trying to recall something make an association. So you might recall Election Day, 7th, false or just Election Day, 7th.
As Election Day changes (2020 in on the 3rd) many people have a rather weak recall of the date so it’s easy for people to get confused.
PS: In terms of politics these Twitter accounts don’t actually have a liberal following so banning them helps republicans.