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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by tetromino_ on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:17PM (#25885208)
And if it's anything like some other naïve bot detection algorithms I've seen, it might be viciously biased against non-English-speakers. To the extent of, say, labelling anyone primarily using Arabic or Cyrillic alphabets as a bot.
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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by jacquesm on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:23PM (#25885701)
Or that writes a lot in Dutch.

Just the other day a prominent dutch account got auto-blocked on twitter for saying 'Die Rutte toch.', where 'Die' (a pretty common dutch word, which in this case translates as 'That') was mistaken for a threat to our prime minister.

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