Twitter’s New Communitites Must Avoid The Same Toxic Mistakes As Facebook Groups
, both valued at around $10 billion and for their ability to virtually convene people en masse.
One feature of Twitter Communities immediately separates them from groups on other platforms. They’re all public. While public groups can be misused—PizzaGate largely happened in open forums, and it’s where the right-wing Proud Boys first organized—misinformation researchers generally say private ones are the most problematic, operating in secret, away from other users who might report them.
“That's very enticing for us,” says Matthew Nelson, 24, of Los Angeles. He’s the founder of @WeRateDogs and a moderator of the new DogTwitter Community. “It’ll spread like wildfire. I think that dogs, and once people get wind that their entire Twitter experience could just be dogs by staying within that Community, it'll grow like crazy.”
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