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> Afaik the media matters employees were not genuinely interested in consuming Nazi content. I'm quite certain they were genuinely interested in seeing what ha
by Sephr 3y ago
> Afaik the media matters employees were not genuinely interested in consuming Nazi content.
I'm quite certain they were genuinely interested in seeing what happens when they consumed Nazi content.
- zaptrem 3y agoIf they weren’t interested in the content itself but were instead interested in studying or manipulating the system providing the content I can see why the behavior in question would be deemed inauthentic. However, I can’t really back it up beyond that as I’m not them, sorry.
- Arnt 3y agoI think you're probably right, but... Twitter's implenmentation of authentic user detection must be expected to try to separate normal users from e.g. test accounts created by client authors. And even if the Media Matters staff was genuinely interested in seeing etc, I think it's quite likely that their click pattern resembled a test account more than a Joe Normal User. (Intense activity immediately after signup, for example.) If that's the case, then Twitter's authentic user detection would classify the MM user as "likely test account" or something like that, and the authentic user data shown on Twitter's dashboards would exclude the MM user.
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