In addition to enabling uncouth behavior, Twitter also enables a worldwide append-only record of analysis, claims, and counterclaims, including those of journalists, medical professionals, experts in every field, and others.
Every possible claim on every possible issue will probably happen on the Internet. Some of those claims will be right. Some will be wrong.
We have the prior expectation that journalists, government, and experts will utterly crush others as a population on their track records.
We have the prior expectation that journalists, government, and experts will utterly crush others as a population on their track records.
But for the first time, we now have observable track records.
And that... we are still working through the societal implications of that.
And that... we are still working through the societal implications of that.
It’s always been possible for a stopped clock the be right twice a day. And it’s always been possible for someone controlling the channel to say, in response to being outperformed on a single instant, that it was outperformed by a stopped clock.
But which clock keeps winning?
But which clock keeps winning?
