Harry Guerrilla
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Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
Friday afternoon, users noted, "#DNCLeaks" was trending, with more than 250,000 tweets about it on the platform. By Friday evening, it vanished completely from the site's "trending" bar for at least 20 minutes. It returned as "#DNCLeak" after users erupted, though it was too late to quell their rage.
private company, it is their right to do whatever they want. More faux outrage from the American right wing.
What?
These are a mix of Bernie supporters and Trump supporters.
Pete, you're pure comedy.
No you are pure comedy.. what Twitter does to its "trending" algorithm .. if there is even such a thing, is up to Twitter. They routinely censor the "trending" bit, else you would see far more sexual and political (radical) than there is.
Yep, it's a conspiracy from the right wing.
Keep on, keeping on. :lamo
Eh?
Who said anything about a conspiracy? All I said was that it was just more typical faux outrage from the American right wing. Anyone can see what you are doing here... trying to hurt the Democrats and Hilary.
Do you really think that the GOP does not have a similar email traffic on Trump or/and the others?
Why is it "faux outrage" where is my "outrage" and why is it "faux?"
They're hurting themselves, they caught got with their pants down and it's just day one of the wikileaks release.
I'd love to see and post those as well, but what I do have from them?
Nothing right now.
Because it is a typical Fox News bull**** story.
How on earth can they be hurting themselves? This is personal emails and documents that have been stolen and released. They were never ment for public viewing.
Not sure you would.. I suspect there would be a lot of anti-Trump stuff plus worse. But lets see if the hackers have hacked the RNC..
private company, it is their right to do whatever they want. More faux outrage from the American right wing.
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story | Washington Examiner
The DNC email dump is causing all kinds of crazy stuff.
Compelling evidence how corrupt the DNC , the media and the Clinton's have been and what a rigged closed guarded group they ALL belong to !
EXPOSED: New Leak Shows DNC Officials Tried to Destroy Bernie Sanders' Campaign
WikiLeaks Emails Show DNC Worked Against Bernie Sanders - Breitbart
Rigged: Leaked emails show DNC tried to embarrass Sanders for his religion - Red Alert Politics
Leaked emails show how Democrats screwed Sanders | New York Post
Wikileaks Document Dump Shows DNC's Distaste for Sanders - Hit & Run : Reason.com
http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/wikil...aplan-democratic-national-committee-conventi/
Everyone with a hate boner for the DNC is going to have a very good weak.
This is the first batch of released emails.
They plan to release more as the days come up to the convention.
private company, it is their right to do whatever they want. More faux outrage from the American right wing.
It would be fine if the private company were not constantly making efforts to declare itself as neutral and unbiased. If they then interfere with that neutrality, they lose credibility. That's what this is about.
Funny how credibility suddenly matters for the right..... so Twitter should not interfere at all?
Credibility has always mattered to me, doesn't it matter to you?
If you want to maintain neutrality and the credibility that goes along with it, you do not interfere, if you have ethics about it.
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story | Washington Examiner
The DNC email dump is causing all kinds of crazy stuff.
So twitter users complained on twitter that twitter was suppressing something for 20 minutes? Several things sound off about that, really think there is a simple explanation, and that alot of people will not accept it.
private company, it is their right to do whatever they want. More faux outrage from the American right wing.
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story | Washington Examiner
The DNC email dump is causing all kinds of crazy stuff.
It was in regards to all this other stuff.
Sounded interesting.
What I find amazing is that anyone is surprised that the DNC would conspire to sabotage the campaign of an independent candidate running as a Democrat. I'm shocked---not at the info in the leaks, but at the stupidity of the American public who thinks this is a big deal.
Maybe I don't have enough caffeine in me yet, but not at all following what you are referring to with that.
It matters massively to me.. which is why I dislike Fox News. Guessing you do too then if it matters so much to you? Or any conservative/right wing site out there?
The BBC disagrees. How Twitter changed the world, hashtag-by-hashtag - BBC NewsBut lets be real here. Twitter is not exactly a massive social media outlet. It has falling user numbers and is a takeover target by the big boys. Chances are Twitter will be sucked up by Facebook or Google or even Apple by the end of the year.
Most people have no idea what "trending" is and certainly most dont know how it is calculated. Now logically it would be calculated by mentions, but those that follow technology knows that this is not exactly how Twitter or any website works. If it did, then you would see ISIS and sexual acts at the top of all trending lists, but you dont. Hell most of the time I have no idea why stuff is trending, because the Twitter universe is such a small one that it does not reflect the real world. It is so easy to get things to trend in most countries, even in the US. Look at Jimmy Fallon and the Tonight show or the Conan O Brian show on TNT.. both have had trending issues on Twitter... just because they got a few thousands viewers to post about it.
So what if Twitter does this? The whole internet does it. There is not one conservative web site out there that is not being censored, so it is absolutely rich that it is the conservatives that are complaining about this. Twitter is a private company that provides a service and as soon as they dont base their "trending" on mentions, then it becomes "biased and censored" but there is nothing you can do about that.. unless you want to see some disturbing stuff on the trend list.
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