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CAN AGARWAL CORRECT TWITTER’S COURSE?

Twitter's Challenges

tippinsights Editorial Board 04.Dec.2021

Captain Parag Agarwal is Twitter's new pilot.  Will his astute intelligence,
combined with AI at his disposal, rescue the microblogging platform or fly a
kamikaze mission?

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, stepped down from the role this week to give more
attention to his other business, Square. Dorsey's stepping down has raised many
questions about the direction Twitter will take now. Will it completely morph
into the leftist echo chamber as many perceive it to be today? Or will the
platform continue to be a battlefield for political ideologies between the
"right" and the "left"?

The company website proclaims that Twitter is an "open service that's home to a
world of diverse people, perspectives, ideas, and information." But, since its
launch in 2006, the short messaging service has shortchanged a significant chunk
of American people by failing to promote diverse perspectives or even offer
space to air them.

The microblogging and social networking service's user base is mainly American,
with an audience reach of over 77.7 million. But, Twitter faces many challenges.

First is the lopsided composition of its users. The Investor’s Business
Daily/TIPP Poll completed in early November showed that 33% of conservatives,
31% of moderates, and 42% of liberals use the messaging service.  Based on
political affiliation, 40% among Democrats, 27% of Republicans, and 34% of
independents use the site.

Second, Twitter suffers from a trust deficit. Only 27% of Americans hold a
favorable opinion of the service. According to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll, the
distrust is high across the board.

38% of Democrats hold a favorable view compared to 25% of Democrats who don't.
Among liberals, 37% favor Twitter, while 28% don't.

The scenario is worse on the other side. 38% of Republicans have an unfavorable
opinion of Twitter, while 21% are favorably disposed. 39% expressed mistrust
among conservatives, while 27% trusted the service. Similarly, negative
attitudes are more prevalent among independents (37% vs. 19%) and moderates (31%
vs. 23%).

Since the 2016 presidential election, Twitter has faced tremendous criticism,
primarily due to the censorship of many prominent conservative personalities and
journalists. For instance, Twitter has suspended Donald Trump, Paul Sperry,
Wayne Allyn Root, Laura Loomer, Jamie Glazov, James O'Keefe, and many others.

Even if one excuses the platform for suspending accounts to diffuse tense
stand-offs, blanket bans are unacceptable. By permanently and arbitrarily
banning people from Twitter, the platform functions as an active agent of cancel
culture.

Such censorships have generated a new challenge for Twitter's new CEO, Parag
Agarwal, to face.

According to a Verge Article, Agarwal, the Chief Technological Officer (CTO) of
Twitter since 2011, has led the charge on "scaling a cohesive machine learning
and AI approach" for the platform. Last year, in an interview with the Atlantic,
he described how the microblogging site uses several agents and machine learning
to "proactively identify potentially bad tweets" it prioritizes for review.

The very same AI system is censuring many prominent conservatives today. AI is
only as unbiased as the creators of the system, and Mr. Agarwal has an uphill
battle in preventing the platforms' AI and algorithms from making Twitter into a
leftist utopian echo chamber which would be harmful to the company's bottom
line.

Twitter has already experienced a measure of fallout due to its censoring,
especially of conservative voices. Prominent conservative voices and a large
section of their followers have left in droves to similar platforms such as
Gettr and Parler.

'Tweets' meant to disseminate information were also expected to initiate
dialogue and facilitate the exchange of ideas. Ideally, it should have presented
all perspectives without bias and led to healthy debates. Barring that, the
service provider should have refrained from penalizing one political party or
ideology.

According to a Pew Research Center Study, 25% percent of Twitter users produce
97% of all tweets. The study also stated that "Twitter users (64%) say they are
mostly using it to see what others are saying. Just 7% say they are mostly using
it to express their own opinions, while another 28% say it's an equal mix of
both."

The key here is 64% are passive and mainly use the platform to see what others
are saying. Twitter does have an audience of tens of millions. It can and has
been used as a tool to shape the narrative of events and to influence opinions.
Without a fair discourse, conservatives and moderates among the silent-watchers
will slowly migrate to other platforms.

Twitter truly needs more conservative personalities like Donald Trump and
veteran journalists like Paul Sperry to present a complete picture. Without
them, the left will have no one to "fight against" or engage with, and the
passive users will become discouraged from using the platform. They will begin
to only see the same things from broadcasting media repeated in the
Twittersphere and eventually leave.

Parag Agarwal needs to watch his algorithms closely, reinstate more prominent
conservative profiles, and understand that censoring conservative voices is
harmful to Twitter in the long run.

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BIDEN SAYS HE IS CRAFTING A PLAN FOR RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS

On Friday, President Joe Biden said he is developing comprehensive initiatives
to make it difficult for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

"What I am doing is putting together what I believe to be the most comprehensive
and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin
to go ahead and do what people are worried he's going to do," Biden said,
without going into detail.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials warned again this week that severe economic
sanctions are on the table against Russia.

Ukrainian tensions set the backdrop for the first call in months between the
U.S. president and his Russian counterpart as soon as next week. As in their
past talks, including a June face-to-face meeting in Geneva, other issues likely
to come up include cybersecurity, arms issues, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, and
Syria.

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EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS DISAPPOINTED BY IRAN'S STANCE IN NUCLEAR TALKS

The United States and European powers have voiced disappointment at what they
said was Iran's lack of seriousness in the latest round of negotiations.

The White House said Tehran did not bring any "constructive proposals" to the
renewed negotiations suspended in Vienna on December 3.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said separately on the same day that the
talks ended because Iran right now does not seem to be serious about doing what
is necessary to return to compliance with the deal.

"Major changes (have been) demanded (by Iran),"  European officials at the
negotiations said in a statement on December 3, adding that some were
incompatible with the 2015 deal.

"Tehran is walking back almost all of the difficult compromises crafted after
many months of hard work," they added. The E3 (Britain, France, and Germany)
diplomats went on to say it was "unclear how these new gaps can be closed in a
realistic timeframe."

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AUSTRALIA REFUSES TO SIGN 'TRUCE' FOR BEIJING OLYMPICS AS IT WEIGHS UP
DIPLOMATIC BOYCOTT

Australia has joined 19 other countries in opting not to sign a truce with China
ahead of next year's Winter Olympics.

The Olympic Truce is a tradition that dates back to ancient Greece to ensure
conflicts don't disrupt the competition.

The 20 countries' refusal to sign sends a message to Beijing over its human
rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and the treatment of Chinese tennis
player Peng Shuai.

Since its revival in 1993, Israel and North Korea are usually the only countries
not to sign the truce. But the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday
passed the resolution without the support of 20 countries.

None of the "Quad" members – United States, India, Australia, and Japan –
sponsored the resolution, and New Zealand was the only country in the Five Eyes
intelligence-sharing network, comprising Australia, NZ, Canada, the United
Kingdom, and the U.S., to sign the truce.

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AS U.S. PROMOTES DEMOCRACY, CHINA TOUTS ITS OWN VERSION

In the initial "Summit for Democracy," China - which was not invited - has
increasingly talked up the advantages of its own "whole-process democracy."

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng speaks during a dialogue event on
democracy in Beijing,

In recent weeks, Chinese state media and diplomats have ramped up criticism of
democracy in the United States, touting what they describe as preferable
outcomes in its system of "socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics" on
measures ranging from COVID-19 management to social mobility.

Communist Party-ruled China, widely considered to have become increasingly
authoritarian under President Xi Jinping, first used the phrase "whole-process
democracy" in 2019. The concept was enshrined in law this past March.

The Dec. 9-10 event hosted by Biden did not invite China, but Beijing-claimed
Taiwan was.

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