Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident

Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by anotherturn on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:40AM (#14088207)

Given twitters track record upholding user privacy in the face of lawsuits and the like [0] I'm somewhat skeptical that they'd play ball with United in this way.

I'd suspect it's more likely that United and their twitter drone army are "reporting the tweet(s)" as "abusive or harmful" and if enough twitter users do that it would make sense that twitter would auto-remove / moderate said tweet.

Of course, it's strange that the originators of the tweet don't get notified or see their tweet after moderation - so I'm likely wrong.

[0]:http://time.com/4731403/twitter-donald-trump-alt-uscis-lawsu...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by juliangoldsmith on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:10PM (#14091380)

I'm not sure I'd take Twitter's refusal to unmask an anti-Trump account as purely upholding privacy. I'd consider Twitter to be pretty anti-Trump, so politics likely play a part there.

[ Parent | on HN ]