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Their filter was more than just botspam. Twitter purposely removed trending pro-Bernie and anti-Hillary hashtags during the primary.
by gre 9y ago
Their filter was more than just botspam. Twitter purposely removed trending pro-Bernie and anti-Hillary hashtags during the primary.
- koolba 9y agoI wouldn’t put it past them but do you have evidence of that? I didn’t see it in this testimony.
- gre 9y agoOther than following the election very closely and observing, no I don't have evidence. Tags like #whichhillary were very popular at times yet not in the trending tags. If you caught a tag before the censors you could see it trending before they removed it. Again, just observation, sadly. Are their trending hashtags included in the firehose data or otherwise recorded? Someone could go back and analyze it if they had the data. edit: Here you go. Also google for it to find more links. Feb 2016, well before the primary was over. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/26/1491618/-Twitter-Exec-Censors-WhichHillary-in-advance-of-Sunday-Fundraiser-Key-Primaries https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/26/1491618/-Twitter-...