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The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation (www.nature.com)
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[–] StraightArrow@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've never used Twitter, nor liked it, but in 2010 I had to observe that it was indeed useful when it became one of the primary ways for people to communicate during the Arab Spring.

Since then I kept not being into it, but at least I thought it had some important value I had not seen.

Now it's all locked up, so it really has become useless (and I haven't even talked about the rampant disinformation)

RIP Twitter

Edit: fixed grammar