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To be fair to IG/Twitter there seems to be a spam campaign on behalf of the Palestinian people. For example, look at the top comments on any Justin Bieber post

To be fair to IG/Twitter there seems to be a spam campaign on behalf of the Palestinian people. For example, look at the top comments on any Justin Bieber post lately: https://www.instagram.com/p/COwqsQRH3Rj/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COwqsQRH3Rj/ This probably happening all over the internet and these posts got swept up with the latest bot catching algorithms.

meowface 5y ago
I have no idea what actually happened here (maybe a mixture of things), and I know a lot of people don't necessarily think some powerful billionaire deserves any pity, or they may think he's actually involved in censoring things himself, but I kind of feel sympathy for Jack Dorsey. What a mess.
almog 5y ago
This just goes to demonstrate what might be triggering these false positive auto-moderation, but it shouldn't justify it. What I mean is that if the model they use for flagging would infer that legit spam (comments to a post by Justin Bieber AFAIK isn't related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) could mean that similar content when applied to relevant content is still spam (or marked for deletion for other reasons). It's a bit like if google page rank algorithm identified a website being copied by multiple websites and punished the website that was the first to publish that content instead of other way around. If that was the case, it would have obviously been exploited to bury competitors pages.
- charlesju 5y ago
  I think what probably happened is these people (real or bots) posted on every major influencer and liked each other's posts to get them to the top of the posts. Which is very similar to what a spam bot ring would do.
nradov 5y ago
There is currently also a Palestinian spam campaign on Facebook. Look at recent posts from popular media pages on completely unrelated topics. The comments are flooded with repetitive Palestinian messages.
paganel 5y ago
This is similar to the famous "come to Besiktas!" posts. Or to whenever a Turkish or Egyptian footballer comes to a certain team, you can be sure that said team's social media channels will be inundated by Turkish or Egyptians fans for the duration of the player's stay. In other words it is spamming, but it is not State-sponsored spamming, like it happens with Israel.

meowface 5y ago

I have no idea what actually happened here (maybe a mixture of things), and I know a lot of people don't necessarily think some powerful billionaire deserves any pity, or they may think he's actually involved in censoring things himself, but I kind of feel sympathy for Jack Dorsey. What a mess.

almog 5y ago

This just goes to demonstrate what might be triggering these false positive auto-moderation, but it shouldn't justify it. What I mean is that if the model they use for flagging would infer that legit spam (comments to a post by Justin Bieber AFAIK isn't related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) could mean that similar content when applied to relevant content is still spam (or marked for deletion for other reasons). It's a bit like if google page rank algorithm identified a website being copied by multiple websites and punished the website that was the first to publish that content instead of other way around. If that was the case, it would have obviously been exploited to bury competitors pages.

charlesju 5y ago
I think what probably happened is these people (real or bots) posted on every major influencer and liked each other's posts to get them to the top of the posts. Which is very similar to what a spam bot ring would do.

nradov 5y ago

There is currently also a Palestinian spam campaign on Facebook. Look at recent posts from popular media pages on completely unrelated topics. The comments are flooded with repetitive Palestinian messages.

paganel 5y ago

This is similar to the famous "come to Besiktas!" posts. Or to whenever a Turkish or Egyptian footballer comes to a certain team, you can be sure that said team's social media channels will be inundated by Turkish or Egyptians fans for the duration of the player's stay. In other words it is spamming, but it is not State-sponsored spamming, like it happens with Israel.