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A handful of companies are controlling the majority of the world\u2019s conversations, subtly introducing rules to close the gap of what ideas they find acceptable and slowly edging out those they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
One of the most prominent ways that tech companies have been doing that, of late, is the result of realizing that they get ample media support and can stay in the good graces of legacy media outlets when they censor content for being \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The guise of protecting the world from \u201cmisinformation\u201d is fast becoming the easiest justification for censorship online right now.<\/p>\n
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talked about this in a\u00a0livestream<\/a>\u00a0with Showtime hosts Desus Nice and The Kid Mero.<\/p>\n \u201cMisleading information is like the challenge of our industry right now,\u201d Dorsey said in the Periscoped stream.<\/p>\n The hosts were eager to discuss what Dorsey had in mind for punishing those who say things that is deemed to be \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n The example they gave is, what would happen if President Trump tweeted \u201cpotentially harmful\u201d statements about the coronavirus?<\/p>\n Dorsey responded that \u201clabeling would come in really handy,\u201d and talked about\u00a0Twitter\u2019s recent policy announcement<\/a>\u00a0that is aimed to tackle the tweets of public leaders.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it\u2019s broadcast on television, you have no ability to talk back,\u201d Dorsey said, and while you may not think it based on Twitter\u2019s recent actions, the ability for users to comment and disagree is an important part of Twitter, Dorsey at least says he believes.<\/p>\n Dorsey said that instead of removing the tweets of world leaders, Twitter will instead introduce an \u201cinterstitial.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnything that we can do to interstitial a lot of this and provide context that is credible and might show a disagreement or a debate around the topic, I think, would be helpful,\u201d Dorsey said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe team is working on a great experiment to do just that, that we hope to launch as quickly as possible to give people a broader context for a particular tweet\u2026I think we\u2019ll disarm a bunch of it.\u201d<\/p>\n The details are sparse so far but it appears that Dorsey plans to introduce a feature that comes in when Twitter finds a statement that a world leader makes and wants to challenge it.<\/p>\n In other words, Twitter feels brave enough to place some kind of editorialized interstitial between a world leader and the reader, that alters the way the reader perceives the tweet.<\/p>\n