Posted on 11/01/2017 12:05:58 PM PDT by maggief
Twitter buried significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
“Approximately one quarter (25%) of [#PodestaEmails tweets] received internal tags from our automation detection systems that hid them from searches,” Edgett said.
He added that “our systems detected and hid just under half (48%) of the Tweets relating to variants of another notable hashtag, #DNCLeak, which concerned the disclosure of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee.”
Just two percent of the tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag came from “potentially Russian-linked accounts,” according to Edgett. He explained that Twitter hid the tweets as “part of our general efforts at the time to fight automation and spam on our platform across all areas.”
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Steve Bannon is right. Time to regulate them as a public utility.
Collusion
Such a nice campaign contribution
If they buried things which consistently benefit one candidate only, why isn’t that an “in kind” campaign contribution? An illegal one at that.
The other half of this equation is that they create trends, based on left wing politics. Yes, it’s time to regulate Twatter and Crackbook as public utilities.
MY, MY, MY....
What a precious byte of news.
Algorithm reset button. /sarc
BS. It wast o help HILLIARY AS BEST THEY COULD......TALK ABOUT COLLUSION!............................
This is an Illegal unreported In Kind Campaign Contribution, a complaint needs to be filed immediately
She’s disgusting.
Google/YouTube also.
* spit *
What was the hashtag used for describing the Trump tape? Did they bury that? What about the Russia collusion with Trump campaign? Do they filter that as well?
No, of course not.
If you're not on Twitter - you wouldn't BELIEVE the bile and lying that goes on against conservatives and Trump supporters.
But we beat their lying @sses, constantly. :)
This was an unreported in kind campaign donation.
Every Twitter executive belongs in jail....they will look great in orange jumpsuits!
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