[BrianGragg]

I called it a hit piece because instead of saying users recently found a bug affecting 1 link to NPR. They say X "Caught" blocking links like it was something intentional and not an erroneous error. Any other site not connected to Elon with the same issue and it wouldn't of been writen I suspect.

[slg]

> instead of saying users recently found a bug affecting 1 link to NPR

This is a good example of bias. It is not a fact that this was a bug. The fact is Twitter displayed the warning. Twitter has told NPR it was a false positive, but a journalist shouldn’t take an uncorroborated secondhand statement from the party being accused of potential wrongdoing as proof of anything.

Imagine for a second that this was done maliciously. Do you think Twitter would immediately admit that? Of course not, their statement would likely be identical to the one we got. Therefore the “fact based reporting” thing to do is present the facts, present Twitter’s response, and let the reader come to their own conclusions.

[Brian_K_White]

It's a fact that a pattern of behavior was accused, but a pattern of behavior was not shown.

Tells us more about bias.

(I'm no Twitter fan. I never had a Twitter account and no way in hell would I now.)