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posted by janrinok on Thursday February 22 2018, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the death-of-the-bot dept.

According to Ars Technica

A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on Twitter than they had the night before. The apparent cause was the latest culling by Twitter of accounts that in some way violated the company's terms of service, a Twitter spokesperson told Ars, including "behaviors that indicate automated activity or violations of our policies around having multiple accounts, or abuse." The sweep has some on the right accusing Twitter of politically motivated censorship.

"Twitter's tools are apolitical, and we enforce our rules without political bias," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement emailed to Ars. The accounts were targeted as part of "our ongoing work in safety," the spokesperson said. "We also take action on any accounts we find that violate our terms of service, including asking account owners to confirm a phone number so we can confirm a human is behind it. That's why some people may be experiencing suspensions or locks. This is part of our ongoing, comprehensive efforts to make Twitter safer and healthier for everyone."

And at Vanity Fair:

Renewed fears of censorship have once again led some users to talk about leaving to join Gab, the so-called free-speech social network that cropped up in 2016 as an alternative to Twitter. And Gab couldn't be more pleased. Utsav Sanduja, the company's chief operating officer, told me on Wednesday that the company had seen "a surge of donations, Gab memberships, [and] user sign-ups" since Tuesday night.


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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday February 23 2018, @07:13AM (2 children)

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday February 23 2018, @07:13AM (#642249) Homepage Journal

    Twitter's only value is that it allows msm journalists to quickly do their job without stepping outside of their house and doing actual journalists and talking to actual people. So for their benefit, Twitter is bound to purge bots.

    The use of Twitter for non-journalists is that it is a platform for them to be heard, with an incredibly small percentage of chance - chance that improves if you are closer to the celebrities/public figures. Hence you see all these dumbass people just waiting to post a smirky reply to someone else. Bots can allow some nobody to pretend to be a celebrity and get more importance than rest of the plebs. So that's also why they need to go.

    All in all a cesspool of dumb people and propaganda machine running by manipulating aforementioned dumb people.

    Since the only value of Twitter is because of their relationship with MSM, I have absolutely no idea what Gab is supposed to achieve except be the 'Zion' to the 'Matrix' (pardon the pun).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @10:27AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @10:27AM (#642307)

    Twitter's only value is that it allows msm journalists to quickly do their job without stepping outside of their house and doing actual journalists and talking to actual people.

    That's value?!