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They explain that in their report: > CTS has previously written about the phenomenon of “stochastic harassment” on Twitter, or how influential accounts act as
by nvm0n2 3y ago
They explain that in their report:
> CTS has previously written about the phenomenon of “stochastic harassment” on Twitter, or how influential accounts act as nodes for harassment even when not explicitly directing their followers to harass anyone.
> CTS found 60 examples of direct replies to reinstated accounts and 127 examples of threaded replies (i.e., replies to tweets in the same conversation, but not directly replying to the reinstated account’s tweet) that our machine learning classifier assigned high antisemitism scores to during the period we collected data
So, they hate people who aren't actually harassing anyone, nor calling for any harassment, but who get replies that their machine learning classifier thinks are anti-semitic.
This is absurd. They literally call you an anti-semite if you say something mundane and then someone else replies with something that a machine thinks is anti-semitic, at any point in a thread, even if the reply is to someone else entirely. By that standard they deserve to lose any lawsuits heading their way, and lose them badly.
I thought they couldn't make themselves look any worse, but then they presented their examples of "anti-semitic tweets". It's a guy who was involved in conservative politics, who replied to one of the ADLs tweets and criticized them. The ADL post he was replying to was calling Trump an anti-semite. For disagreeing with this he himself is now supposedly an anti-semite.
This is a blatant attempt to shut down criticism of the ADL itself, as an institution. They aren't even trying to hide what they're doing here.
Unfortunately that is all totally standard nowadays. Many groups have complained about this. Left wing activist orgs go after newspapers, TV channels, social networks, all of it. Any organization that isn't explicitly left wing gets attacked like this. They have a goal of making disagreement either outright illegal or impossible via private sector control, hence why they always go after advertisers, payment processors and other "nodes" as they put it. Their goal is very clear by now, it is the obliteration of any and all ideological disagreement.
Am rooting for Musk in this fight.
- freejazz 3y agoAre you actually serious?