Twitter Buried #DNCLeak, #PodestaEmails Tweets In Last Two Months Of Campaign
Twitter buried significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
“Approximately one quarter (25%) of [#PodestaEmails tweets] received internal tags from our automation detection systems that hid them from searches,” Edgett said.
He added that “our systems detected and hid just under half (48%) of the Tweets relating to variants of another notable hashtag, #DNCLeak, which concerned the disclosure of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee.”
Just two percent of the tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag came from “potentially Russian-linked accounts,” according to Edgett. He explained that Twitter hid the tweets as “part of our general efforts at the time to fight automation and spam on our platform across all areas.”
Seems like the russian narrative runs on projection. Why won’t they mention US ‘troll farms’, or the CTR, or JTRIG, or anything about a US hacker in the last fucking decade?
Atleast the russian stories help me profile the people who’s opinion i’m not interested in
It’s maddening that a lot of the left would use the phrase ‘reality has a liberal bias’ when defending twitters actions
h/t Jack