Technology

Dealing to social media 'super-spreaders'

Peter Griffin
Thu, 14 Jan 2021

If you were Jack Dorsey, would you have booted President Trump off Twitter for good last week?“Hell yes!” I can hear my liberal friends screaming in response. I’d have to agree with them. When you are the CEO of an incredibly powerful company like Twitter, Facebook or Google, you must live with the business decisions you make.You can pick through Trump’s inflammatory speech and subsequent tweets all you like in debating whether he was actually inciting violence. You can angst over the erosion of freedom of speech his Twi...

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