Twitter CEO Elon Musk has praised the platform’s Community Notes feature for “ending censorship in guise of virtue” and handing control of the “narrative” back to ordinary people.
Under the feature, contributors can leave notes under any tweets across the platform and, if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note publically appears under the tweet.
“It’s easy to think Musk has botched everything if by ‘everything’ you mean the old system of strict narrative control. But he meant to abolish that system; that was the whole point,” Dillion wrote.
“Naturally, those who used to control the narrative and censored views they disliked are less than thrilled,” Musk continued, adding, “How tragic.”
Politifact Fact-Checked
Dillon’s comment referenced an article shared on Twitter by fact-checkers at Politifact defending the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union boss Randi Weingarten’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.The article stated that early on in the pandemic, “Weingarten advocated for schools to reopen for in-person learning, provided they use safety precautions.”
“She criticized the Trump administration’s 2020 calls to reopen schools fully, but it’s misleading to claim that she opposed reopening at all,” the article read.
Twitter Tells Different Story
“CRIMINAL!! Students in Martin County, FL returned to school Tuesday; already 1 elementary class was quarantined as students showed COVID-19 symptoms. Their teacher is required to report to work even when exposed to #covid under @RonDeSantisFL order,”“This is why @FloridaEA sued,” she added.
The Epoch Times has contacted American Federation of Teachers for comment.
“When people say, ‘Fauci shut down the economy’—it wasn’t Fauci,” he told The New York Times Magazine on April 25. “The CDC was the organization that made those recommendations. I happened to be perceived as the personification of the recommendations. But show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did.”
“I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that. But I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other,” Fauci added.
The former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases did, however, acknowledge that the government could have taken a “better” approach to the pandemic, adding, “Anybody who thinks that what we or anybody else did was perfect is not looking at reality.”