{"id":51273,"date":"2020-02-21T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51273"},"modified":"2020-02-21T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:33:11","slug":"scandal-ridden-opcw-now-using-twitters-hide-replies-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51273","title":{"rendered":"Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter\u2019s \u201cHide Replies\u201d Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter\u2019s \u201cHide Replies\u201d\u00a0Function<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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When Twitter first implemented its \u201chide replies\u201d function last year I published an article<\/a> warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote it I was imagining the function being used by overt manipulators like cable TV pundits and Washington Post<\/em> columnists, and think tank operatives like Neera Tanden who vocally supported<\/a> the implementation of the function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I absolutely was not<\/em> expecting, as paranoid and conspiracy-minded as I am, was a highly regarded UN-associated international chemical watchdog group using the function for that purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of this writing, if you go to\u00a0the Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), you\u2019ll see\u00a0this tweet<\/a>\u00a0at the second from the top:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#OPCW<\/a> Joins @IUPAC<\/a> Global Women\u2019s Breakfast <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#GWB2020<\/a> #WomenInScience<\/a> #GenderChampions<\/a>https:\/\/www.opcw.org\/media-centre\/news\/2020\/02\/opcw-joins-iupac-global-womens-breakfast\u00a0\u2026<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you log on to Twitter and go to that tweet and click this little button, it will take you to a section of \u201chidden replies\u201d<\/a> which aren\u2019t visible on the main tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will not be surprised to learn that the tweet<\/a> which the OPCW\u2019s Twitter account has chosen to hide is critical of the organization:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That \u201c#wikileaksdoumareport\u201d hashtag in the hidden tweet refers to the leaks<\/a> which have been pouring out from the OPCW<\/a> adding to the mountain of evidence<\/a> that the US, UK and France bombed the Syrian government in 2018 as a retaliation for a chemical weapons attack in the town Douma which did not occur. Whoever is in charge of the OPCW\u2019s Twitter account does not like the lowly commoners talking about this on their page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s\u00a0an OPCW tweet<\/a>\u00a0from a week ago which has the same issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter\u2019s \u201cHide Replies\u201d\u00a0Function When Twitter first implemented its \u201chide replies\u201d function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote it I was imagining the function being used by overt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,27238,14545,19511,19869,819],"class_list":["post-51273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-hide-replies","tag-narrative-control","tag-opcw","tag-organization-for-the-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51274,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51273\/revisions\/51274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}