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They also suspended Nancy Tracker [0], a twitter account tracking Nancy Pelosi's stock trades.

Something else I noticed that I think has changed is the follower counts on suspended accounts, which is only available on the app. It may have always been hidden on the web.

I get it, they're a private platform. But if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech? The white house has admitted that they're in direct contact with social media platforms even going so far as tagging posts for "misinformation" [1]. In theory the state can't restrict the speech on social media. But in practice they don't even need to.

[0] https://twitter.com/NancyTracker

[1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-would-government-ce...

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It appears NancyTracker and the Maxwell court case from this thread were run by the same account?

https://gab.com/NancyTracker/posts/107411717342791428

If so - whatever got them suspended (bot farm upvotes usually?) got both accounts suspended. These then aren't separate suspensions but one person's suspension across multiple accounts.

You quite possibly hit the nail on the head. Sometimes, far too often, random people doing nothing underhanded become a false positive statistic for some sort of automated malicious activity detection and have their accounts suspended for no good reason.

But other times, those automated malicious activity detectors are doing their job correctly, and people really ARE doing something underhanded, and the giant corporation in question chooses not to air their reasoning in public, which is probably the right call (from the corporation's perspective) most of the time. It's hard to know from the outside which one of those two things happened.

The new "private information" policy has been widely abused in the last week or so. A lot of accounts of this nature are going up and down as people war over false reports.

Bunch of examples: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1465833079952625664

Didn't the Nancy tracker start posting random correlations for susceptible people?

I’m glad it’s gone, that pivot was hard and weird since the Pelosis stopped daytrading

> But if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech?

Well you would first have to prove that they were acting on the behalf of powerful state actors. Does anyone have that proof?

Let's see how long @pelositracker lasts.

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