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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by Nullabillity on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:22PM (#11809342)
> Twitter provides data to researchers, at least in some situations, and may provide data about these events.

Small problem: if the data they provide to the public can't be trusted, then why would the data provided to scientists be any better?

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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by rcpt on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:48PM (#11811786)
They send tweets in real-time to data miners. The delete requests don't show up until later. All you need to do is break their terms of service by not honoring the deletes
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