Posted on 03/04/2022 3:21:04 PM PST by Libloather
Twitter has banned more than 100 accounts that pushed the pro-Russian hashtag #IStandWithPutin for participating in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” days after the hashtag trended on Twitter amid the invasion in Ukraine.
A Twitter spokesperson said on Friday that it is still investigating the origins and links between the accounts, and that it banned the accounts for violating its “platform manipulation and spam policy."
The accounts with the most retweets about the hashtag on Wednesday only had a few dozen followers and used stock photos as profile pictures, which led disinformation researchers to question how the tweets went viral.
It’s an indication that Russia’s once-feared “firehose of falsehood” has been both neutralized and drowned out in recent weeks, particularly as Western media and social platforms have sprung into action.
The swarm of inauthentic accounts was initially discovered by Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor of Middle East studies and digital humanities at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.
“People throw the term bots around a lot, but what we saw here was lots of accounts demonstrating inauthentic activity and astroturfing,” Jones said. “They’re not bots. They’re a lot harder to check than that. Imagine a call center setup. Think of the amount of damage you can do.”
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Why I am not choosing a side. There is something weird about the take-down-Putin mantra. The Deep State sees him as the enemy, like they did with President Trump. Lindsey is right there jumping on the band wagon.
Twitter can’t allow people to do that! Nope.
https://streamable.com/2zrgqd
The MSM and Big Tech have been telling nothing but lies for a long time, but they are still trusted by way to many people. Lies aren’t always easy to spot. Deception works.
But the censorship we’ve seen in the last year is something new.
It’s disgusting, but in a weird way, it’s almost refreshing - because censorship is easy to spot, and the fact that they do it tells us everything we need to know.
It is an admission that their agenda is NOT to provide transparency and an open platform for healthy debate.
Case in point, the stolen election of 2020.
The fact that they won’t even let people utter or print those words.
The fact that they fight so hard against audits.
Not should carved out government protections
I agree......media, both mainstream and social, are no longer free speech....
Shameful direction the world is taking. But I will say this. I’ve noted on the foreign websites you can discuss both sides of this war....but here in the states and on FR you have to follow the trend. therefore we’re seeing one side of the equation only.
If you’re on Twitter you’re part of the problem
There are TONS of left wing twitter “bots” operating to create false consensus on any issue the left wants to promote. They will never get banned.
Ya this doesn’t give any warm and fuzzies.
This just proves you can and will censor Trump or Putin at your will.
Where are reliable sources of news? I am reading the Epoch Times and Gravitas? Still biased but the bs is discernible.
I watch Steve Bannon weekdays 10-12AM and 5-6PM, Saturdays 10-12AM.
It is hosted by AmericasVoice.news
Sone of his guests are so repetitive that it’s not worth listening, but there are some real gems. I feel very well informed from that show alone.
Other than that, I occasionally watch Tucker Carlson or Mark Levin on Fox, but neither of them are allowed to talk about the stolen election.
Lou Dobbs dared to talk about it, and he got cancelled.
LOL. No dissenting opinions allowed. How soviet of them.
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