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Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asian and African markets probably. For western nations it becomes a containment platform like Tumblr has been until it destroyed itself.

Or rather, destroyed by the touch of Yahoo...

I think the content hosted, and the peculiar weight incurred by its special audience, caused the implosion.

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#182

There are plenty of reputable journalists closely following the trial including Julie K Brown, the Miami based reporter whose story broke the whole thing open a few years ago leading to these arrests: https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist Adam Klasfeld is another one I enjoy: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports

So? It's irrelevant that there are others reporting about it.

If you're interested in the factual details of the case rather than some meta argument about Twitter's bot policy (of which there's not really a point, because we don't know why the account was actually banned aside from artificial manipulation) - I thought it'd be helpful to have a few other sources that are unlikely to be removed.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it’s obvious, is it a dog whistle?

You're correct. Obvious and dog whistle are mutually exclusive terms. But these days those words are treated like magical incantations by hacks trying to make it believable when they assign labels to the wrong'uns.

"dog whistle" is a dog whistle.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#185
post #68

The substack username "patriotone" is pretty revealing. Reeks of QAnon nonsense, the posts themselves contain some pretty obvious dog whistles too.

If it’s obvious, is it a dog whistle?

> If it’s obvious, is it a dog whistle?

The point of a dog whistle is to be obvious to anyone clued into its subcultural framework, but slip under the radar otherwise.

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post #133

I have personally reported this (and related "tracker" accounts) for disinformation multiple times, so for one, I am glad to see it suspended. Despite the innocent sounding name, it's not just "coverage of the trial" as you would expect. The "tracker" accounts have all signs of belonging to a Russian troll farm and pushing a hostile agenda, which has absolutely nothing to do with justice one way or another. I expect…

A Russian troll farm pushing a hostile agenda? The account was reporting facts from a trial of a pedophilic rapist who spent years abusing high school age children. Ghislaine Maxwell deserves nothing but hostility being thrown her way.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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There are plenty of reputable journalists closely following the trial including Julie K Brown, the Miami based reporter whose story broke the whole thing open a few years ago leading to these arrests: https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist Adam Klasfeld is another one I enjoy: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports

Wow, twitter is really unusable unless you have an account. Can't read threads or look at pictures now. Anyone have a workaround?

Opening links in new tabs seems to work for me. Or using a new private browsing session.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#189
I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse [1,2]. The Fediverse essentially rebuilds all the social-networking services but as federated services. This means each service can be hosted by multiple instances and instances can communicate with one another, but all still have their internal rules. I think they even used the "-verse" term before the whole Metaverse-hype.

They could move the tracker to a suitable Mastodon instance [3] or even host their own Mastodon instance in order to get a suitable exposure out there (Maybe even use one of the Blogging instances). This would also be a first test how robust the Fediverse is with respect to external pressure.

[1] https://fediverse.party/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse [3] https://instances.social/

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#190

There are plenty of reputable journalists closely following the trial including Julie K Brown, the Miami based reporter whose story broke the whole thing open a few years ago leading to these arrests: https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist Adam Klasfeld is another one I enjoy: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports

Wow, twitter is really unusable unless you have an account. Can't read threads or look at pictures now. Anyone have a workaround?

My workaround is to come here and read what people write about it. No need to visit Twitter at all.
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