Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by WillPostForFood on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:56AM (#18238997)

So basically satire banned on Twitter, if it comes from the right. These accounts were in no way misleading; one would never confuse them for actual liberal activists.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by rtkwe on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:57AM (#18239007)

There's plenty of satire left out there. What isn't satire or useful is misleading information about how/when to vote etc.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by raxxorrax on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:30AM (#18239413)

While your answer is reducible to "yes" in this case, I think the NPC meme is just the inverted Russian bot meme. If one qualifies as misleading information, the other should be scrutinized as well.

Although the NPC case is probably about some random people on twitter that like to make fun of some targets, the story about Russians seems to have more involved actors.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by rtkwe on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:35AM (#18239462)

It's not the satire/joke that's getting banned, we know this because there's still NPC account doing the same joke so it's not just the joke that brought down the hammer.

What got those 1500 banned were tweets like "Get out and vote November 7th!" 1 day after the actual date of Nov 6th and the boosting and retweeting among all the accounts.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by beauzero on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:34PM (#18240757)

Thanks. This is logical.

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