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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: 2) by JustNiz on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:25PM (6 children)
and of course they are being equally fair in their treatment of extremely left-leaning accounts.
Right?.... Guys?...
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:45PM (5 children)
and of course they are being equally fair in their treatment of extremely left-leaning accounts.
Yes, all the leftwing groups that had young girls murdered at their rallies have been demoted as well.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:15PM (1 child)
Won't someone think of the poor Ted Kennedys?
Seriously though:
I'm a little unfamiliar with this one. I seem to remember in Charlottesville a bunch of rioters stormed a car to kill the driver because the rioters colluded with the police to not maintain order for political reasons, and someone who was stampeding the car got killed instead of the driver, when he drove away. If you're in a bloodthirsty mob and you get the brilliant idea to attack the driver of a 3000 pound steel and gasoline powered death machine, try not to act too surprised when the driver finds a way to live instead of calmly and cheerfully dying, perhaps via tire tracks over one of the bloodthirsty rioters. I think that's what they're lying about but it could be something else.
Also its unclear why a bloodthirsty mob riot slash traffic accident is somehow related to other attendees at a political rally. If some black guy beats his girlfriend in the library parking lot, and I historically visited the same library, although I wasn't present during the altercation, it seems unrealistic to punish me for domestic violence as if I committed the crime.
A better analogy would be one of my coworkers visited Paris, and in a completely unrelated incident, someone else visited Paris and drove a "truck of peace" thru the crowds in Paris at a different time and neighborhood, that means my coworker is obviously somehow responsible and worthy of punishment.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:31PM
Both sides people both sides!
Fuck off you nazi prick and take your stupidity with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:11PM
Clown [theamericanconservative.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:29AM
And what does that have to do with anything? How does the existence of such people justify the censorship of all people who vaguely resemble them?
(Score: 2) by JustNiz on Monday July 30 2018, @07:26PM
I was thinking more of the ones that after Trump won the election, they went on a rampage that included trashing anything in the streets, looting, and assaulting bystanders and cops.