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X suspends account that leaked info about protected user TOS bypass
- Aeglaecia 2y ago"For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally"
- nicce 2y ago> Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. :(
- HelloMcFly 2y agoWorks for me
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- suzzer99 2y agoThis may not be real. I've seen no confirmation or means to reproduce it. https://x.com/awawawhoami/status/1816225589755294128 https://x.com/awawawhoami/status/1816225589755294128 https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306 https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306
- badrequest 2y agoI can't access the profile of the user in question, and the page tells me it's because they're suspended, so seems pretty real to me.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- seanicus 2y agoWell, to be pedantic (but maybe not) they did post an image with a bunch of highly offensive slurs in it
- Spivak 2y agoI don't really want to defend X here but this is probably a non-story or at least not the one the tweet is implying. FB has a similar list, and it's not because of some secret agenda but because taking down posts that get a bunch of user-reports is actually a pretty effective system, except for high-profile accounts that have every single post reported by people who just don't like them. You end up having to maintain a "don't automod" list.
- badrequest 2y agoDoes FB's list of unbannable accounts include a list of slurs they're allowed to say on the platform?
- sylens 2y agoDoes Facebook’s list only seem to include Mark Zuckerberg’s preferred political party and candidate?
- badrequest 2y agoAnybody who is surprised by this has not been paying attention to how the recent acquirer of Twitter has stewarded it thus far.
- dpedu 2y agoI do find it fairly surprising the lengths people go to to create false information and trash a website they claim to not like or want to use. I'm sure there's a better use for that time.
- tonfreed 2y agoThere were celebrities and leftwing figures getting away with all sorts of unsavoury language on Twitter for years, so the tools were probably already there. Would be more surprising if they hadn't been put to use for the inverse after leadership changed.
- hnbad 2y agoUnsavoury as in ethnic slurs?
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- bediger4000 2y agoIf true, would this count as the real "Twitter Files"?
- legitster 2y agoThe leak itself is almost surely fake. It's a very short list of well known right-wing accounts and confirmed mouthpiece accounts. You'd think a "leak" would reveal several other, as of yet unknown users, right? Not even a few internal test accounts? Some of them are even misspelled. It would also make no sense that would need a whitelist of racial slurs if the accounts are themselves also whitelisted? Having this in a public Okta endpoint doesn't make a lick of sense either.
- dpedu 2y agoAlso pointed out in the replies on Twitter is that at least one of the usernames in the "leak" is misspelled. https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306 https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306
- floren 2y agoYeah I'm willing to believe that X has some accounts marked for various special treatments, but I'll need something more conclusive than a screenshot to prove it.
- dpedu 2y agoThe Okta url in the post doesn't resolve. This is almost certainly fake.
- chayesfss 2y ago[dead]
- r721 2y agoRelated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41062348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41062348