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Twitter Files #19 – Stanford, the Virality Project, and Censorship
- starkd 4y ago>>20.The Virality Project helped pioneer the gauging of “disinformation” by audience response. If the post-vaccine death of a black woman named Drene Keyes in Virginia went unnoticed inspired mostly “anti-vaccine” comments on local media, it became a “disinformation” event. >>21.VP warned against people “just asking questions,” implying it was a tactic “commonly used by spreaders of misinformation." It also described a "Worldwide Rally for Freedom planned over Telegram" as a disinformation event. So, the Virality Project was actually censoring information by the reaction it got, not by the truth of the claim itself. This is very unsettling.