Thread by @jason_kint

These two posts, and how they were handled by Twitter and Facebook, will be studied for years.

You ask “Why North Carolina?” Well they’ve started voting in NC. He’s messing with the election in the very first state. Twitter is handling it appropriately by taking away amplification tools that provide the suppression velocity and reach. Facebook still not doing enough.

I can’t emphasize enough the elegance of Twitter’s policy here. In no way is Twitter suppressing the President’s speech (which they have right to do as a private platform). They are instead eliminating use of their social media tools to help spread it. This is good policy, @jack.

Facebook’s CEO and defenders argue that Facebook’s policy is best for speech. This is false. What they overlook is their algorithms spread the post microtargeting it to the vulnerable and reduce counter-speech which would otherwise correct the lie. Just see the first comments.

IOW, Facebook is enabling the harming of our democracy while Twitter is risking political pressures to do what is best to protect democracy. I wish advertisers and consumers could more clearly support this.