This is rich: Former Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz says the idea that she wanted to edit your tweets came from something she said that was “decontextualized.” Ironically, the reason she said she wanted Twitter to be like Wikipedia is so that verified, trustworthy people like herself could go in and “add context.” And the best part is that she refers to an AP fact-check to back up her claim.
Before we get into her “absurd claim” of her wanting to edit your tweets, here’s video from a Zoom call of Jankowicz suggesting making Twitter more like Wikipedia so people like her could edit your tweets and add context. She literally says it right here:
Only "trustworthy" people like Nina Jankowicz should be verified on Twitter and able to add context to other people's tweets. pic.twitter.com/nsquSNJRyI
— Maze (@mazemoore) May 10, 2022
Seriously, this was the head of the Disinformation Governance Board:
I never wanted to edit your tweets.
My response to a question in January 2021 about Twitter's then-brand-new Birdwatch program (which exists to add "informative context" to potentially misleading tweets) was decontextualized to make that absurd claim.https://t.co/9XQ2ZtuSlA pic.twitter.com/PVP4276mw9— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) May 28, 2022
Disinformation is hardly ever about cut-and-dry fakes. It's false *or misleading* information spread with malign intent.
And this viral claim about me illustrates the way online disinformation often works.
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) May 28, 2022
Removing the context in which remarks are made and claiming something else is being said is a very effective disinfo tactic in the internet era; people read a single source (or even just a headline) that activates their confirmation bias and don't attempt to verify beyond that.
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) May 28, 2022
So she was planning on kicking Aaron Rupar off of Twitter?
So the AP fact-check to which she links doesn’t say the claims against her are false … it says they are “missing context”:
Comments Jankowicz made during a January 2021 presentation, more than a year before she was named to lead the disinformation board, are being misconstrued. A video of Jankowicz’s full remarks shows she was explaining an existing program offered by Twitter that allows certain users to write notes contextualizing claims made in tweets. Jankowicz did not say she personally wanted verified users to edit tweets, nor has she said she plans to implement something similar through the board.
“Jankowicz did not say she personally wanted verified users to edit tweets,” only that verified, trustworthy people like her should have the ability to edit your tweets.
Nina
— Name cannot be blank (@rape_wh1stle) May 28, 2022
You’ve been tweeting for 6 hours on a Saturday + ratio = log off
— Andrew McCarthy (@AMcCarthyNY) May 28, 2022
I can't wait to hear all this in song form.
— Egg Avatar of Justice (@bkitchen2004) May 28, 2022
Cope
— Sebastian Castellanos (@Sebasti66855537) May 28, 2022
Nina stop it
— West Ukranian Gulag Media (@Khemist12) May 28, 2022
you know it's a good one when the fact checkers say "missing context"
— Paul Butler 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇸 (@A4P_2044) May 28, 2022
Take the L and move on…
— Rigby (@KhrysosUK) May 28, 2022
I don't think lecturing people is your thing.
— JT (@ochidesasi) May 28, 2022
Ironic. Your idea to add context was…. Taken out of context. You can’t make it up
— Walrus2.0 🏳️🌈 (@WalrusIsBack) May 28, 2022
How many issues have you been wrong on just in the last 2 years? How much wrong context would you have added to each each tweet? You clearly don’t see that as a problem.
— Ryan (@cycle4solitude) May 28, 2022
I think Nina Jankowicz has some real problems going on in her head.
— Brian Jones (@BrianJo63679674) May 28, 2022
serious question, if you couldn't handle the disinfo around your appointment by a bunch of domestic Twitter trolls, how were you qualified to handle complex state-funded disinfo?
— aj (@ajohnaj68) May 28, 2022
Your words have more than spoken for themselves. You fooled no one. Your legacy will be garbage.
— MaximumChess (@Maximum_Chess) May 28, 2022
Just go away crazy lady
— Joe Maxwell (@JoeMax1018) May 28, 2022
You helped spread numerous rumors that we now know were fake. Go away.
— PortnoyConservative (@PortnoyCon) May 28, 2022
What do you think about the Clinton campaign spreading false information about Trump and Russia @wiczipedia
— Jon W (@JonW33631980) May 28, 2022
— Corey Lahey (@Faucimysavior) May 28, 2022
This has got to be the most lib profile pic that ever libbed pic.twitter.com/AshRdHVShm
— Spiderbite (@FenderFoe) May 28, 2022
You said what you said.
— ME 🍿 (@Trademom17) May 28, 2022
Go away.
Related:
Minister of Truth thinks trustworthy, verified people like her should be able to ‘add context’ to your tweets https://t.co/3q8kWADG7v
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 11, 2022
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