Matt Taibbi releases THE TWITTER FILES. The first installment in a series. This is the greatest election interference in US history. People from Twitter and the media need to be locked up.

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[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What proof do you have that I'm a conspiracists

Because you are postulating these conspiracies

  1. There's a conspiracy at twitter. Taibi didn't show this, you admit "it could turn out to be nothing", but you know for a fact that people are "worried about what was in those files". There's no evidence around, beyond Taibi's stupid vacuous nonsense, that anything happened, yet you believe there was a conspiracy at twitter

  2. You just told me that at least 34 media editors have conspired to bury a story. That's what you think happened - it's not that something newsworthy happened recently, it's a conspiracy to cover up the Twitter non-story.

That's why I said you're a conspiracy theorist - because you've just conjured two out of ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's a conspiracy at twitter.

I've read my OP 3 times now. At no point did I postulate there is a conspiracy at twitter. I mentioned that I noticed articles about twitter going around and I said it looks like an attempt at misdirection. That does not mean there is a conspiracy, that's my opinion. I feel like you disagree with what I said and are tossing out "Conspiracy theorist" as a way to shoot down my comment without providing a rebuttal.

I've been on Saidit for over 2 years and before that Reddit since 2010. In that whole time it's never been implied that I was a conspiracy theorist. To me this is just the latest buzz term used to dismiss people without any discussion. It's right up there with 'disinformation'.

You just told me that at least 34 media editors have conspired to bury a story. That's what you think happened - it's not that something newsworthy happened recently, it's a conspiracy to cover up the Twitter non-story.

That's not a conspiracy, it's collusion and/or being complacent and it has happened many times. The first things that comes to mind are the second Iraq war, 2008 housing bubble/crash, Occupy Wall street, BLM protests and Covid-19 reporting. All these events are examples of when the media fixated on a singular narrative. Information that went against the established narrative was ignored or actively suppressed. That is 100% factually what happened. To believe that this is not happening again is naive.

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

an attempt at misdirection

...by actors who are conspiring. That's called a conspiracy theory. You invented a conspiracy theory out of absolutely nothing.

it's collusion

Oh, a collusion theory. So you're a collusion theorist

Why, if you accept that you're a collusion theorist, would you fight me on the term "conspiracy theory"? You're just throwing up your mental barriers against the content of what I wrote: that you theorised two sets of collusion, out of no evidence whatsoever.

All these events are examples of when the media fixated on a singular narrative. Information that went against the established narrative was ignored or actively suppressed.

Who actively suppressed? Was it people who were conspiring - sorry, colluding? Are you really going to throw 15 conspiracy theories at me to prove you're not a conspiracy theorist?

second Iraq war, 2008 housing bubble/crash, Occupy Wall street, BLM protests and Covid-19 reporting

"Bro I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nobody ever called me that, now here's all the conspiracy theories that I believe in"

Why dont you just face facts?

  1. That this is a non-story

  2. That you were wrong to think, without checking, that this information is damaging to someone

  3. That you were wrong to think that 34 editors colluded to cover up a nothingburger by printing newsworthy recent events

  4. That you cant pretend you're not a conspiracy theorist who invents fictional stories out of nowhere by insisting you're just a collusion theorist