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After following the account for a bit it was mostly just spreading rumours like "Baldwin deleting account because of Epstein trial" when in reality it was most likely related to the shooting. I can understand that it got suspended by people probably reporting some of these tweets.

It was far from a factual tracking of the events.

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And yet we’re left to guess exactly what Twitter deemed us unworthy of reading.

The opaqueness of the censor is a feature not a bug.

If Twitter say exactly what brought the ban, next time the scammers will know exactly what to avoid.

"If the criminals knew how we'd try them in court they'd know to avoid it so let's go back to the days of the star chamber!"

(Obviously courts != twitter for the pedantic among us)

But the line will be clearer.

Or, as it usually happens in these cases some algorithm suspended the account because too many users reported something and it got flagged and it's not some exciting intervention of the deep state.

That is pretty unlikely and not what was proposed. Pretty sure this would not happen to accounts that are deemed reputable sources. Also I guess there are exclusion lists for prominent people that are not beholden to the TOS.

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