Twitter relied on bots, foreign contractors and tattletales known as “tattles” to enforce it’s COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to the latest internal record review.
In a case study, the Free Press reporter David Zweig focused on an Aug. 11in her Twitter biography as an “‘Internet rando’ and public health fact checker — Focused on Covid and kids, restoring normalcy, and Covid metrics in Georgia.”
“What an excellent example of cherry picking!” @KelleyKga wrote back. “If you narrow it down to only the specific months you specify, which include the largest Covid wave AND you ignore all non-disease deaths AND you ignore cancer, heart disease, SIDS, then Covid is ‘leading.'” However, the reporter added, the bot system was “too crude for such nuanced work” as sorting out analysis about a global pandemic.
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