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>Before the election, we also detected and took action on activity relating to hashtags that have since been reported as manifestations of efforts to interfere
by prolikewhoa 8y ago
>Before the election, we also detected and took action on activity relating to hashtags that have since been reported as manifestations of efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. For example, our automated spam detection systems helped mitigate the impact of automated Tweets promoting the #PodestaEmails hashtag, which originated with Wikileaks’ publication of thousands of emails from the Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account. The core of the hashtag was propagated by Wikileaks, whose account sent out a series of 118 original Tweets containing variants on the hashtag #PodestaEmails referencing the daily installments of the emails released on the Wikileaks website. In the two months preceding the election, around 57,000 users posted approximately 426,000 unique Tweets containing variations of the #PodestaEmails hashtag. Approximately one quarter (25%) of those tweets received internal tags from our automation detection systems that hid them from searches. As described in greater detail below, 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.
Twitter openly admits to censorship. They censored legitimate journalism for political reasons.
Source: https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-d433-4055-9f3d-c94f97eeb1c0/testimony-of-sean-edgett-acting-general-counsel-twitter.pdf https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-...
- pmarreck 8y agoIs censorship of argumentum-ad-nauseam bullshit really censorship, though?
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- prolikewhoa 8y agoWhere is the "argumentum-ad-nauseam bullshit"? I'm didn't post this to argue about politics or what your political beliefs are, just that they do in fact, censor.
- pmarreck 8y agoThe thing about Hillary’s emails was COMPLETELY INFLATED by her opposition, since she was not the first person by a long shot to use a private email server. Inflation = distortion = bullshit.
- prolikewhoa 8y agoAgain, I wasn't here to debate your political opinions, I was just simply pointing out that Twitter does censor, and providing a US .gov sourced example. Try Reddit for your garbage opinions.
- dang 8y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 8y agoGarden-variety political flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't post like this, regardless of your politics.
- burfog 8y agoI like how they justify it by claiming that the tweets were automated. How so? I saw lots of real humans complaining that their tweets were blocked. I think the logic goes like this: "We wouldn't tweet that. Nobody we know would tweet anything like that. Therefore, this is not from real people." Maybe the Twitter employees need to get out a bit more, perhaps taking a lengthy visit to rural Oklahoma or West Virginia. There may be some feelings of guilt here. To deal with that, just claim that the tweets aren't from real people.