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> I can’t imagine anyone going through tweets from 2010 and actively reporting them, so it seems more likely that they must be using some algorithm ... Moderat
by panarky 7y ago
> I can’t imagine anyone going through tweets from 2010 and actively reporting them, so it seems more likely that they must be using some algorithm ...
Moderation tools have been weaponized in the troll propaganda war.
Post an insightful and highly liked reply to a controversial topic, watch the likes roll in, and then suddenly go dark after about three minutes.
View the thread incognito, and the popular comment cannot be found.
Trolls brigade-block-and-report views they don't like, and your reply gets memory-holed until a human moderator can review it.
Hours or days later your comment gets restored, but the damage is done.
Of course troll armies are mining old tweets for any violation, so they can remove you from the conversation and manufacture the illusion of consensus.