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Re:Offensive Tweet Quiz by inteoryx on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:57PM (#27226323)
The order of the questions is random per user, so not everyone will have the same 3rd set of Tweets.

I'm not sure if Twitter's algorithm is detecting a political bias and that detection is an input, or if Twitter marks Tweets as offensive because they have been reported by people who have a political bias, or if it is just random coincidence that one political side seems to get censored more than the other.

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Re:Offensive Tweet Quiz by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:37PM (#27226879)
I also encountered a pair of tweets in which neither was offensive in any way, but they differed in their views of Israel vs Hamas.

I also got one from a gay porn model in which the presumably-offensive reply said "I want to get fucked like that"; in context, this can't really be considered offensive.

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