Medium Is Really Screwing Up What We Are Trying To Say

Second time whistleblowing about this

Frederick Bott
3 min readSep 8, 2023

I am now experiencing on many occasions Medium actively not just Muzzling me, but making a nonsense of what I am trying to say.

It does it by changing things we write, both at the time we write it, and after we write it, to fit with the narrative that makes profit for the platform.

Algos obviously designed for this purpose, and this purpose alone, to maximise profits for the platform, are changing now even the grammar we write, to mean completely different things than what we intended to say.

When people see a lot of this, they start to doubt our technical competence, or even our sanity, when we seem to be contradicting ourselves ever more, as time goes on, the algos get better and better at what they do, progressively screwing up more of what we are saying.

It happens most often when what we are saying does not agree with it’s current learning, that profit is gooooood, always gooooooood.

I used to think this was my imagination, but am seeing it happen now more and more, it starts very subtly but is now getting much more blatant.

Worst of all, I usually don’t have time to stop and correct it.

I have to leave the errors in place, and trust folk will know what I meant.

Examples are things like if I say that the physics of E=MC squared alone proves something, the algos changed it today to remove the equals sign. EMC has a completely different meaning in Electrical Engineering, to E=MC squared.

So it sounds like I was saying that what we know about EMC, proves my point, when of course it doesn’t at all, and anyone knowing a little about EMC and E=MC squared, like me, would read anyone I didn’t know making this mistake as clear evidence of their incompetence.

Above happened using Medium web interface on PC

A further change I noticed, this morning, using Android phone Medium App, was it changed the word I typed “Too”, to “Two”.

This was in the context of me expressing my opinion that there are too many signs from nature indicating the right way forward, and we are ignoring those, by carrying on with the heavily flawed science and industry of “Renewables”, “Net-Zero”, and carbon mitigation schemes.

“Two Many” is nowhere near “Too many”. The platform changed completely what I was saying, to something completely different, because I guess in its knowledge, it didn’t make sense to be critical of the profit driven conventional science approach of “Renewables”, and “Net-zero”.

This is serious folks, especially when we are on the doorstep of apocalypse.

Why are we not getting that profit, is the underlying driver which is causing all the problems, all the bad stuff we see going on right now?

I will tell you, it is because of millions of changes like above, which is happening on all for-profit platforms.

Carrying on with the for-profit business model to conclusion, is what will be the end of us, it leads to the end of all life.

I can’t emphasise that enough.

I’ve gone into other modes of trying to get the word out, but as yet there are still no non-profit options, so it looks like this is the real fight we have on our hands — the fight to end profit, as required to get the benefits from the only survivable energy source, solar, backed by hydrogen on a domestic and community basis.

I’ve started writing about it on Amazon, first book is here:

If you want to support me, you’ll please buy the book, and maybe some or all of the others that will rapidly follow. Besides getting the best clarification of things I can offer, it will help me to continue to keep working on the energy problem.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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