CNN public editor: how CNN amplifies social media misinformation
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IT’S WORTH LOOKING AGAIN AT TWITTER’S EXPLANATION for closing Donald Trump’s account. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account,” the company said in a statement on January 8, “and the context around them—specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter—we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” (The emphasis is mine.)
As journalists, many of us focused on the headline—Twitter bans Trump. We failed to understand that our obsession with those same tweets, or “how they are being received and interpreted,” has been part of the problem all along. We have amplified and broadcast each one, over and over. Not least on CNN.
The network has had internal discussions on limiting the use of Trump tweets. But it was felt that since the messages had been so widely distributed elsewhere, there was no point in holding back.
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