The Anti-Twitter Files: Report Shows How Twitter Helped Trump and Conservatives

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13 points·mhoad··5 comments

Uuuggghhh. Bad title. The people who prop up Trump are Trump loyalists who are not necessarily conservatives. Trump, in his scorched earth conquest for extreme loyalty, pushed the most conservative politicians, by voting history, out of the Republican Party. Those people were super out-spoken against Trump including but not limited to Amash, Flake, and Cheney.

It pushed small numbers of people out on ideological grounds, but overwhelming numbers stayed. Trump got more votes in 2020 than anybody in history, except for his opponent.

80 million Republicans may not be loyal to him, but they did vote for him, twice. A voting booth doesn't care how enthusiastic you are when you pull the lever, and neither does the candidate. A vote is a vote, and as far as they are concerned any vote is a complete endorsement. Had he won he would have governed as if every Republican was devoted to him.

On the fence voters were not the subject of the article though.

This is completely disconnected from reality. I hope the author receives the help they need.

Research has found that Twitter's timeline algorithm favors right-of-center politics, see for example this study:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...

It's not implausible that the same people responsible for these algorithms also made moderation decisions biased in the same direction.

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