Jarnhamar said:
Fair enough that could be the case but that video with first it's hand accounts right from employees didn't strike me as edited a specific way. Could be wrong of course. Do you think social media giants like facebook, twitter and youtube are biased to the left-wing side of things?
Well, they all have one thing in common. HQ'd in Silicon Valley in California, and staffed by young educated millennials...in other words, not a hotbed of Republicanism, or even conservatism. So yes, I imagine they exist on the Left side of the spectrum, as well as the Left Coast.
Moreover, they are all also businesses, and not public utilities, nor are they bound in any way by things like journalistic principals. They can do whatever they would like, within the bounds of fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders.
They have complete control over the content that is displayed on their platforms, and those platforms are moderated, much like this one is.
The big "gotcha" in that piece is the interview with Mo Norai. Here is his job description for his position when he worked at Twitter for all of 5 months (taken directly from his Linkedin page):
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mo-norai-9930bb74/
User Services- Content Review Agent
Company NameTwitter
Dates EmployedNov 2015 – Mar 2016 Employment Duration5 mos
LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Use in-house tools to perform daily review of reported abusive content on Twitter
Quickly learn our policies and enforcement actions
Escalate high-priority issues in a timely manner
Recommend tool improvements and efficiency gains
Prioritize daily tasks and meet productivity expectations
Communicate issues clearly to management
Adhere to process quality metrics and strive to exceed the monthly/annual quality & productivity targets.
Follow all compliance and security measures relating to client data.
Moderate online content submitted by users
Maintain data work requirements by following data program techniques, procedures as well as meeting and maintaining the required quality threshold.
Participate as active an contributor and apply creative problem solving skills in project brainstorms
Note that he is, essentially, a moderator, as he was at Apple before Twitter, and is at Facebook now.
All of that to say that although Twitter staff (and indeed the ownership) may "lean left" and staff likely do moderate posts that they do not agree with, there is nothing illegal or sinister about it. It is byproduct of the platform and the type of people who run it....
