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...
Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
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#182There 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.
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#183Earlier 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.
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#184Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
#185The 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?
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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#186I 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…
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#187Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
#188There 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?
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#189They 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
#190There 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?