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Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by lp0_on_fire »

Jimmc414 wrote: post #3
christmm wrote: post #2

why? most likely higher ups from Twitter involved with Maxwell and Epstein

Looks like the account possibly tried to implicate an Intel agency several hours earlier? https://twitter.com/HardensBetter/status/1468304975998578689 I would be interested in seeing the missing tweet if anyone has any ideas how to view a cached version.

The past 5 years has taught us that on twitter it's ok to imply (and in many cases outright state) that the sitting president of the US is a literally Russian plant) without a fear of a ban.

In a normal world this would mean you could also imply that Epstein is an intelligence asset without fear of a ban.

But this is twitter world so who knows?

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by kube-system »

barney54 wrote: post #109
kube-system wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"artificial" is the key word -- it is referring to intentional manipulation rather than legitimate engagement.

And what does that mean?

Their own descriptions are quite detailed:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/platform-mani...

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by rosmax_1337 »

mbesto wrote: post #83
MrPatan wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". Where does it say the information was false in that sentence? The newspeak worked. and to go from "artificially" to bots and fake accounts... OK, maybe. But how do you know? Not because they told you in that sentence, that's for sure.

> newspeak You guys keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means. Twitter is a private company. Newspeak was a language developed by the government in Orwell's 1984. VERY different contexts here. For the record - what Twitter communicated is not clear and potentially deceptive, but this response wasn't written by some Twitter PR person. Some support person pressed a button and a canned twitter respo…

Everyone knows Twitter is a private company, that is besides the point.

Consider this: Whoever governs society is the government. Reality does not have clear lines like a textbook about economics and politics might have. When does a company begin to govern society? In my opinion, companies like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, etc. are large enough to govern society. And as such they can be considered in a different light than your average corner store down the street.

If you disagree still. Would you consider the historial East India Trading Company a private enterprise, or something inbetween a political organisation and a private enterprise?

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by lp0_on_fire »

kube-system wrote: post #107
matheusmoreira wrote: post #82

> "artificially" amplifying information Isn't that the whole point of Twitter?

"artificial" is the key word -- it is referring to intentional manipulation rather than legitimate engagement.

Again...is that not the whole point of twitter?

Their _entire_ business model is predicated on their algorithm manipulating engagement. There's very little "organic" engagement on social media any more.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by adamc »

mbesto wrote: post #83
MrPatan wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". Where does it say the information was false in that sentence? The newspeak worked. and to go from "artificially" to bots and fake accounts... OK, maybe. But how do you know? Not because they told you in that sentence, that's for sure.

> newspeak You guys keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means. Twitter is a private company. Newspeak was a language developed by the government in Orwell's 1984. VERY different contexts here. For the record - what Twitter communicated is not clear and potentially deceptive, but this response wasn't written by some Twitter PR person. Some support person pressed a button and a canned twitter respo…

First, it's clearly an analogy. It doesn't have to be exactly the same as the book. Second, both involve some more powerful party trying to force-feed an interpretation using deliberately unclear language.

It's close enough.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by pixelgeek »

paganel wrote: post #12

> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". That is newspeak pure and simple.

I don't think you really understand what newspeak[0] is supposed to be.

From wikipedia (or a reading of the book) "Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will."

What you are reacting to is a technical term that Twitter uses to describe a type of activity that they have found on their network. Specifically, using bots and fake accounts to create the impression that a message is popular or being retweeted by actual people.

As noted elsewhere in this topic, Twitter has an actual definition[1] of what this means.

There isn't really any reason to be confused by the wording of the reaon for the account being deactivated.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak [1]:https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/platform-mani...

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by BitwiseFool »

ineedasername wrote: post #70
balbaugh wrote: post #7

There is a Substack associated with the suspended twitter account [0]. They have made a recent post about the suspension of said account and all of the users other twitter accounts [1]. It states that twitter told the user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". [0] https://patriotone.substack.com [1] https://patriotone.substack.com/p/twitter-suspension

So they were banned for using sock puppets to popularize their tweets?

If so, I want BrooklynDad_Defiant, the Palmer Report, Duty to Warn, the Gravel Institute, and ReallyAmerican1 removed immediately. There is no way these folks always manage to be at the top of every trend organically.
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