X suspends account that leaked info about protected user TOS bypass

This may not be real. I've seen no confirmation or means to reproduce it.

https://x.com/awawawhoami/status/1816225589755294128

https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306

I don't really want to defend X here but this is probably a non-story or at least not the one the tweet is implying. FB has a similar list, and it's not because of some secret agenda but because taking down posts that get a bunch of user-reports is actually a pretty effective system, except for high-profile accounts that have every single post reported by people who just don't like them. You end up having to maintain a "don't automod" list.

Anybody who is surprised by this has not been paying attention to how the recent acquirer of Twitter has stewarded it thus far.

The leak itself is almost surely fake. It's a very short list of well known right-wing accounts and confirmed mouthpiece accounts. You'd think a "leak" would reveal several other, as of yet unknown users, right? Not even a few internal test accounts? Some of them are even misspelled.

It would also make no sense that would need a whitelist of racial slurs if the accounts are themselves also whitelisted? Having this in a public Okta endpoint doesn't make a lick of sense either.

The Okta url in the post doesn't resolve. This is almost certainly fake.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41062348

> Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

:(

If true, would this count as the real "Twitter Files"?

"For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally"