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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Censorship sux. I don’t care who’s getting censored. It’s just wrong.
Disention from the Government Approved position shall NOT be tolerated!!
Russian bots.
Both Twitter and Putin are banning “misinformation.”
So Twitter is acting just like... Wait for it....PUTIN.
Twitter is a POS group and Putin is a mad dog. Free speech doesn’t apply with a private company.
Bingo!
Well now. I guess we know where Twitter stands on the issue.
Now that will show them Russians we can out Russia them.
Twitter is US government.
Love watching people cheerlead for a corrupt Ukrainian puppet who's backed by Soros, the Clintons, Obama, the WEF, and UN globalist scum.
"Stand for Ukraine!" But don't stand for the J6 protestors rotting away in D.C. jails.
You just can’t say it can you? Twitter does what the US left tells them to do. They are just like Putin.
Look who wants war
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1499885223026302981?s=20&t=e0BhxeYEy6bhsXw3qNeFfQ
The >$200k crowd
When i was a young bloke, the communist left was constantly crying “freedom of speech!” whenever they demanded that porno and demented perversions be given a prominent place in the public square.
Now we see that it was all just a ruse to gain the upper hand by destroying the foundations of our society, so that now they can clamp down on any speech that opposes their insane, demented ideologies.
America should ideally be more pro-freedom than Russia. This isn’t a good look though some of those posts are probably from bots.
The people who do the dying and lose their loved ones don’t want war. The others don’t mind if people die as long as it isn’t themselves or their family.
Figures
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