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Twitter relied on bots, foreign contractors and busybody users dubbed “tattles” to enforce its misinformation policies, the latest report on the company’s internal practices revealed Monday.
In a case study, the Free Press reporter David Zweig focused on an Aug. 11 tweet from user @KelleyKga, who describes herself in her Twitter biography as an “‘Internet rando’ and public health fact checker — Focused on Covid and kids, restoring normalcy, and Covid metrics in Georgia.”
On that day, Kelley took issue with another user who claimed COVID-19 had been the “leading cause of death from disease in children” since December 2021.
“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 (seen across the world) AND you ignore all non-disease deaths AND you ignore cancer, heart disease, SIDS, then Covid is ‘leading.'”