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Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-again,-maybe-not dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:00PM (4 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:00PM (#711871) Journal
    Corporations have always been persons, sweety. They just weren't *natural persons.* Unfortunately your generation doesn't seem to care much about such "fine" distinctions.

    "agreeing to use the service at all constitutes legally-binding acceptance of the Terms of Service!"

    It gives them an argument, though not a strong one, to that affect.

    The best solution, of course, is to simply shun such trash to begin with. But I'm not going to agree that merely by naively posting to twitter anyone signs away their rights.

    "lie back and think of England"

    I'm suddenly filled anew with appreciation for sun and decent food. Was that the reaction you were looking for?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:05PM (3 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:05PM (#711919) Journal

    No. Corporations used to be treated as a legal entity within a very limited scope.

    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:33PM (2 children)

      by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:33PM (#711945) Journal
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

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