Zerohedge Suspended On Twitter

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[–]Hellothereawesome 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Horrible times.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Twitter is a complete joke at this point

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The twitterazi are coming for you, thought criminal.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Past couple of days it seems to me like China has been ramping up their influence on a bunch of things. Shit is getting crazy, like they're going for full control.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Does China have substantial control over twitter? I'd be interested in more info if you have any

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Took a quick look at it and didn't found anything relevant. Would have to take a better look.

...but lets remember it's the platform where encouraging people violence against minors is apparently ok as long as they're on the wrong side of politics but hurting people's fee fees not ok.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's probably more indirect. The same thing with movie studios censoring content in order to push it to Chinese markets or google creating a different search engine/algorithm for those in China.

These companies want access to eyeballs, advertising, and user/data aggregation. When a govt says you need to play by these XX rules, shitty companies that don't care about anything their users comply with it, or worse yet, look at it as their "duty" to bring their product to "the people".

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I figure it will slowly build to a boil until July or even August when the shit really gets turned up.

[–]fruitjack 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

and nothing of value was lost.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Freedom ain't nothing.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

cuz they just reported on seth rich

[–]DffrntDrmmr 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Zero Hedge is a source of rumors and gossip, advocating an anti-establishment and conspiratorial worldview, and which has been associated with alt-right views and a pro-Russian bias. Zero Hedge's commentary has led to a number of site bans by various global social media platforms.

Zero Hedge's founder and main editor is Daniel Ivandjiiski. He is a Bulgarian-born, U.S.-based blogger who founded the website Zero Hedge in January 2009. Ivandjiiski's Bulgarian citizenship, lifetime ban from securities trading, and his father's own controversial news and political website (Bulgarian: Строго секретно; English "Top Secret") and position in the pre-1990 Bulgarian-Soviet administration are of note.

An ex-employee of Zero Hedge gave an interview to Bloomberg, revealing Ivandjiiski lives in a mansion in New Jersey, saying: Ivandjiiski "lives a lifestyle you only dream of while pretending to speak for you."

The former website staffer said, "I can't be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It's wrong. Period. This isn't a revolution. It's a joke." He told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was "disingenuous," summarizing its political stances as "Russia=good. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."

Dr. Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston, stated: "I have frequently written that Zero Hedge has the MO of a Soviet agitprop operation, that it reliably peddles Russian propaganda: my first post on this, almost exactly three years ago, noted the parallels between Zero Hedge and Russia Today."

On 20 November 2019, NBC News reported Zero Hedge as the initial source of a "misleading claim about the head of the Ukrainian energy company at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry", which went viral during the impeachment hearings. NBC said that "ZeroHedge apparently misconstrued the original Russian article from the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, which did not mention an indictment. The Interfax-Ukraine News Agency operates as part of Interfax, a Russian news outlet".