Those are real accounts, run by real people: people who are spammers or propagandists. The idea that there are “fake” or “bot” accounts is just pro-censorship nonsense. There is no AGI, these are just alt accounts for human beings (that potentially have an agenda).

I, for one, don’t want Twitter, or anyone else, arbitrarily deciding what (or from whom) I’m allowed to read.

Twitter’s shadowbanning a lot of terms from search lately, especially those related to conspiracies or organized, armed groups (even groups without histories of violence).

It’s becoming really terrifying to not be able to get a clear or complete picture of the relative size/penetration of these memes, or to know what these groups are saying or being told (regardless of whether I buy into their ideologies or not).

Keeping tabs on what’s going on in one of the most volatile and potentially dangerous times ever is now being actively hindered by the social platforms, and it’s terrible.

We do not need more of that, and we desperately need less.

Better scoring, grouping, tagging, and classification tools would be GREAT. More censorship would not.