Nation Astonished by Spectacle of Twitter Management Demonstrating Responsibility (Borowitz Report)
SAN FRANCISCO (The Borowitz Report)—Reacting to a bizarre development that no one saw coming, Americans this week have been dumbfounded by the unfathomable spectacle of Twitter’s senior management demonstrating responsibility.
In interviews across the country, people from all walks of life expressed shock and disbelief that Twitter executives appeared to recognize that their social-media platform was a potentially destructive entity that required a modicum of oversight from those supposedly running it.
“At first, when I saw that they were fact-checking tweets, I thought it was some kind of fluke,” Carol Foyler, a Twitter user from Topeka, said. “But then when they started hiding tweets for glorifying violence, I was, like, O.K., this is getting weird.”
“It almost seems like Twitter has been taken over by someone like Bill Gates or George Soros,” Harland Dorrinson, a user from Phoenix, said. “I would tweet something about that, but I’m afraid they might fact-check it.”
Tracy Klugian, a securities analyst who has been on Twitter since its inception, expressed concern that, by exhibiting even modest signs of adult responsibility, the company is “heading down a slippery slope.”
“Today it’s falsehoods and incitements to violence, but what will it be tomorrow?” he said. “Will Twitter start policing racists, misogynists, and Nazis? Their entire business model is at risk.”
Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nation-astonished-by-spectacle-of-twitter-management-demonstrating-responsibility
(Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey) Photograph by Chesnot / Getty
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But of course he nailed it again, as usual. And I'll be posting Bill Maher's interviews, also as usual, his mini-panel is quite good, just hoping they include all the interviews this week. 
They also included Bill's "funny bit!" 
Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 5/29/20
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017584885
We've missed the late night guys - and humor - this week since they were all in repeats - except for Bill Maher! And just when we needed them the most!
But that's why I post the late night guys. I figure that we really need the humor these days - and I know that there are DUers who have even given up TV altogether!
No one keeps up with the news - and technology - like our fellow DUers - and they're here sharing it 24/7!
