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Hamcha
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White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'cont...
Whoever read XKCD #1085[1] and decided it needed to be a real thing is my hero.
Now the problem is how much it will be politicized and cherry-picked
[1]:
https://xkcd.com/1085/
KerrAvon
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It already has. Emerald boy has deleted context applied to his own tweets, and some of the context being applied to Dem posts is right-wing bullshit.
SauciestGNU
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I have little doubt that Musk will have this feature used capriciously, but I also think crowd sourcing fact checking/context giving is bound to have weird edgecases caused by ideological cranks.
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Can you reference specific examples of the latter?
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Now the problem is how much it will be politicized and cherry-picked
[1]: https://xkcd.com/1085/