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In what appears to be new ranking behavior, Gizmodo has identified several prominent far-right accounts now buried by Twitter's search feature.
The accounts—which belong to figures like Unite The Right organizer Jason Kessler and white nationalist Richard Spencer—no longer appear in the social platform's dropdown results, when searching either for their display names or @ handles.
"Search all" on desktop, and sorting by "People" after a search on mobile still generate the expected results, but Twitter seems to intend to reduce the ease with which these personalities can grow their followings. The move follows Twitter's plans to limit the reach of "troll-like behavior," announced in May.
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:29PM (3 children)
It was his first time doing something like this. Poppyham's past self never would have imagined that he would one day work as a substitute teacher, but here he was. He was quite nervous, but he knew he had to persevere. The man opened the door to the first grade classroom and walked in. Seeing all the children staring at him caused the man's anxiety to increase by several fold. Perhaps due to this, Poppyham's legs lost all of their strength and his vision went black. The last thing the man saw was the image of the children staring at him in shock...
Awaken. The man awakened. Where was he? It appeared as if he was still in the classroom. However... something was amiss. All of the children were still present and the classroom's appearance was identical to its former self, but something was off. After observing his surroundings for several seconds, Poppyham came to a stunning realization; one that would forever alter the nature of this place. It had happened again.
Yes, it. Someone who was unobservant would not be able to see it, but an astute observer would be able to piece together the puzzle. It was the children. They looked normal at first glance, but if one were to inspect them more closely, they would notice several shocking details; one, they were naked; two, none of them were moving or breathing; three, many of them had limbs or necks that were bent or twisted in impossible ways; four, many of them had stab wounds or slit throats; and five, some among them looked to have been beaten by a blunt instrument. All of these facts pointed to one thing: It had happened again.
"Oopsies!" Poppyham exclaimed. The man had once again blacked out and his other self had gotten a bit too playful, resulting in the brutal scene before him. The man then realized that whoever had to clean this mess up would be quite upset, so he decided to leave promptly before he was yelled at.
The man giggled like a child and rapidly tippy-toed out of the room, never to return. However, the man could not erase the fact that he had existed in that place; the state of the classroom over the coming months - that smelly, smelly classroom - would make that apparent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:35PM (2 children)
Is there an archive of these Poppyham stories? My usenet search turned up nothing.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:52PM (1 child)
Well, there is now. Apparently it is called soylentnews.org. [Gouges eyes out and pours bleach in to my empty eye sockets]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:36PM
It is amusing how stupid the "free speech or die" crowd is, they think spewing the most vile shit is the best way to fight against censorship. Sure thing guys, pour gas on the fire maybe it'll burn itself out quicker!
Want to prevent the average person from saying "yeah, censor these fucks"? Then don't abuse systems for the trulz.