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So are they going to apply to the same reasoning to government of Ethiopia, which apparently started a war not too long ago. Or the governments of Armenia and

• nevi-me 6y ago
  Twitter is an American platform, and I doubt that they would expend resources to try quell misinformation and disinformation from third-world countries that have lower followership, little financial incentive and very low legal risk; relative to the US. I'm from South Africa, and decided to temporarily log out of Twitter, because as a platform, it's become the kind of place for hashtag spam, wild conspiracies that are often dangerous and go unmoderated. Twitter has no incentive to do anything, the only times a tweet gets censored is when there's momentum in reporting it, or by chance if it gets caught in some other way. The last numbers I heard were that there's <10 million active Twitter accounts. Compare that to the US. The ultimate tragedy (for me) is how countries have ceded their digital lives/capabilities to American media companies. There's little reason for a South African messaging platform to not survive, given that the average South African only speaks to people in South Africa (those abroad could still use such service).