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We hear about accounts being removed, but we never hear about victimized interlocutors being notified. It seems like telling people that they've been misled by malicious actors would be a super important part of this policing process.

Dear Twitter folks, it's not enough to just vanish a messenger after the message has already been delivered.

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It's also frustrating that Twitter didn't proactively do this - the DCCC had to figure it out and tell them. Twitter itself is obviously best positioned to detect patterns of suspicious activity, intervene before too much damage is done, and investigate and publish their findings. But they don't seem to take this problem very seriously.

Twitter is being brazenly used as a propaganda tool by terrible actors with terrible agendas. It's infested with strange accounts of dubious authenticity - which I think is fairly obvious looking through the replies to prominent political accounts.

>Twitter is being brazenly used as a propaganda tool by terrible actors with terrible agendas. It's infested with strange accounts of dubious authenticity - which I think is fairly obvious looking through the replies to prominent political accounts.

Look through Rebel HQ's Youtube interviews and you may be surprised to see that these "strange accounts" are probably just heavily brainwashed and weird Americans.

Brainwashed and weird how?

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhHzzbqPI4

I think the results would hurt Twitter so they won't do it. Imagine vulnerable demographics in swing states getting 10+ notifications over the course of a year. They'd leave twitter.

I also think that they won't do it, but this kind of speculation about how victims will react is unfounded and also probably harmful.

Well said.

A private message would go a long way to quietly and personally telling us we have been duped.

While we like to refer to psychological wedges only working on “them”, there is a massive body of sociological / psychological research to show that we collectively are all vulnerable. Addressing it as the collective problem it is, versus an “it happens to them” phenomena, may have an impact on overall reception.

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