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> Researchers collected tweets promoting hate from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers. The tweets were reported to the platform using Twitter’s own tools for flagging
by kneebonian 3y ago
> Researchers collected tweets promoting hate from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers. The tweets were reported to the platform using Twitter’s own tools for flagging hateful conduct. Four days after reporting the tweets, researchers found that Twitter had failed to act on 99% of the posts and 100% of the accounts remained active. In the one instance that Twitter removed a hateful tweet, the account from which it was tweeted remains active.
Translation: Some "researchers" flagged a bunch of tweets they didn't like and then got mad when the accounts weren't bad 4 days later.
EDIT: Wow the votes on this comment are going "up and down more than an Essex birds underpants" as the BOFH would say. Seems like some people are taking umbridge with my summary.
- sdsd 3y agoI'm really into studying NGO's like this. They are this arm that links the invisible hand of the market to the rest of the body of the state. The substack Fisted by Foucalt also talks a lot about the role of NGO's in color revolutions
- jasmer 3y agoFisted by Foucault is a dark substack, meaning at least partly ideological lies and disinformation. It's a bit like Zero Hedge in that it's one of those places where they like to talk about how the 'World Really Works!' aka 'behind the curtain' and they do so with some actual insight and intelligence, but ultimately there's a lot of BS and lies, and plenty of over misinformation. The author is also a pro-Putin fascist / apologist who thinks that Putin's invasion of Ukraine must somehow be the result of Russia's victimization by other countries.
- fhd2 3y agoThere are various example tweets in the article, quite clearly hateful and some calling for violence. Whether someone likes them seems irrelevant, the tweets are what the article says they are - at least the examples.