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Comment by msravi

> without explicitly calling for violent uprisings, etc

So that's the problem in this context. Twitter WAS being used to call for a violent uprising in the name of a blatantly false non-existent "genocide":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27773994

To repeat, a farmer rammed a tractor into a barricade causing the tractor to overturn and was killed. The whole thing was clearly caught on camera[1][2]. Within minutes there were blatantly false tweets flying around saying that police had fired on the farmers and there was a genocide in progress (with an associated hashtag). Twitter refused to take down such blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets.

1. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgSLaOMEzHY

parent msravi 5 years ago

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