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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @03:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @03:12AM (#712136)

    I see this trope a lot, but I'm not actually sure where it comes from. Can you help me out?

    It comes from Rome. A corporation does not physically exist but it will be treated by the court as if it were a person (corpus) under the law. It can have lawyers, it can file a complaint, it can be a defendant. It's what the name means.

    All of the noise about it is ignorant Democrats demanding that we change the definition of a word again.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:08PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:08PM (#712280) Journal

    That part is fine, but when was the last time you saw a corporation sent up to the Big House for a 20 year stretch, or put into the gas chamber? Corporations have the rights of real people, but don't suffer the penalties for crimes the way real people do. Over time they have used that to entirely corrupt our society. If we don't put an end to that, they will put an end to us.

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    Washington DC delenda est.