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Twitter Suspension

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27 pointsryanmccullagh12 comments

"Platform manipulation" includes things like leveraging one account to promote another. This person mentions having multiple accounts suspended. If this person was having one account promote or retweet another (not uncommon with gimmick accounts), Twitter might have just banned them all. I have multiple Twitter accounts myself, but I never interact with myself precisely because I don't want to violate this policy.

It also includes buying followers (either fake accounts or real accounts that have given API access to a shady bot).

“The people wanted to hear the truth about the Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein trial”

Hearing someone declaring that they're revealing “the truth” sets off all kinds of warning bells in my mind about conspiracy monging. Maybe that's not the case here, but my experience leads me to believe that it’s likely.

Everything about the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell story sets off alarm bells. Given the number of high-profile people involved, and the curious outcome that befell Jeffrey Epstein, I think conspiracy thinking may be a reasonable option to consider. It certainly does strike me as curious that the trial has been shortened to a week and the press mentions it barely at all. In this case, not being suspicious is frankly being naive.

”You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify […] information”

I thought that was what Twitter was made for, honestly.

https://twitter.com/nancytracker - this insightful account was also just suspended.

The decentralized alternative can't come soon enough.

At this point, if it was ever going to happen, I think it would have already.

"...the second best time is today."

The fediverse does exist, it's just that nobody ever seems to know about it.

https://the-federation.info/

this is a dupe, for more comments see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484545

Does anyone have a TLDR on what this account had recently tweeted that was contrary to the mainstream media narrative?

There was a mass suspension of accounts this morning

Could you provide more details? Other than the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial tracker and the Nancy Pelosi Portfolio tracker, what other accounts were part of the mass suspension this morning?

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