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Have harvested data from Twitter, FB, Reddit and some other such websites for a few years, mostly for the purpose of using it for trading. Around 18 months ago

Have harvested data from Twitter, FB, Reddit and some other such websites for a few years, mostly for the purpose of using it for trading. Around 18 months ago got involved into Covid data and started scraping also data related to this. But anyhow, this is getting quite complex, and in the end is just my data, and tbh, you might just be right and I’m just looking at the wrong data. But on the other hand, such characters as the main people beyond the Great Barrington Declaration and others within their circles experience interesting phenomena (e.g. vanishing likes), that at least based on my scraping I can confirm. Consider this just some anecdotal evidence, this in itself is not what triggered my above statements.

wpietri 4y ago
That is a whole bucket of vaguery right there. But even if you can substantiate "vanishing likes" as a problem, that doesn't prove much. Likes vanish all the time as Twitter rolls up bot networks. You'd first have to demonstrate that this was happening, and then show it was happening disproportionately to some accounts and not others. And then once you had that, you'd have to show that the problem wasn't just excess fake engagement supporting right-wing narratives, as that's a very plausible explanation here.