Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters

[CaughtInThe]

Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters

Company reports spam and platform manipulation by accounts containing identical language

www.theguardian.com

" A review of some of the suspended accounts shows they often used stolen images to appear real. The accounts sometimes claimed to be owned by military veterans or members of law enforcement.


This is not the first time Twitter has had to address a spam operation claiming to be led by Black voters. NBC News also reported spam operations from fake accounts posing as Black Trump supporters in August.

Some accounts were able to attract thousands of followers before they were suspended. One tweet, for example, amassed more than 10,000 retweets before it was removed, NBC News found. Another account allegedly used a photo of a veteran who died last month to pose as a Trump supporter."

Posing as the black folk. Not surprising at all.

 

[beefheart]

Deplorables

 

[Mr Person]

Always hoaxing.

 

[trouble13]

lol, so twitter is banning protrump accts under the guise that they are fake and progressives gobble up twitters propaganda like it was going out of style.

Heres a few questions everyone should be asking. What harm were these sites doing? Does twitter now have a policy of banning catfish? If so what have been the results of their efforts to ban it?

 

[Deuce]

lol, so twitter is banning protrump accts under the guise that they are fake and progressives gobble up twitters propaganda like it was going out of style.

Heres a few questions everyone should be asking. What harm were these sites doing? Does twitter now have a policy of banning catfish? If so what have been the results of their efforts to ban it?

One of them used a photo of a DEAD marine. A marine shot by the police.

Are you claiming that marine is still alive? No? Then take your weak ass claims and go back to Russia, comrade. Nobody is fooled by your gaslighting.

What’s the harm? The GOP is trying to convince black people to vote for them by lying to them. Tell me what obligation Twitter has to facilitate lies? Show it to me in the constitution or in the law.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

lol, so twitter is banning protrump accts under the guise that they are fake and progressives gobble up twitters propaganda like it was going out of style.

Heres a few questions everyone should be asking. What harm were these sites doing? Does twitter now have a policy of banning catfish? If so what have been the results of their efforts to ban it?

Twitter can have whatever policies it wants. Free market, baybee.

 

[Schweddy]

What if they identify has a black person?

 

[Ikari]

What if they identify has a black person?

You can ask Rachel Dolezal how that goes.

 

[trouble13]

One of them used a photo of a DEAD marine. A marine shot by the police.

Are you claiming that marine is still alive? No? Then take your weak ass claims and go back to Russia, comrade. Nobody is fooled by your gaslighting.

What’s the harm? The GOP is trying to convince black people to vote for them by lying to them. Tell me what obligation Twitter has to facilitate lies? Show it to me in the constitution or in the law.

Fo they only police catfish that support Trump or do they bsn all catfish? What is their policy and what have been the results of that policy? Can you answer those questions?

 

[Schweddy]

You can ask Rachel Dolezal how that goes.

Point is, who are Twitter to police whom they feel they are on the side?

Seems a reasonable argument, for instance, if a male were to identify as a female and found a picture online it would be okay.
What makes this any different?

 

[trouble13]

Twitter can have whatever policies it wants. Free market, baybee.

I'm asking what their policy is and no they can not have whatever policy they want. They are restricted by the same laws progressives love so much.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters

Company reports spam and platform manipulation by accounts containing identical language

www.theguardian.com

" A review of some of the suspended accounts shows they often used stolen images to appear real. The accounts sometimes claimed to be owned by military veterans or members of law enforcement.


This is not the first time Twitter has had to address a spam operation claiming to be led by Black voters. NBC News also reported spam operations from fake accounts posing as Black Trump supporters in August.

Some accounts were able to attract thousands of followers before they were suspended. One tweet, for example, amassed more than 10,000 retweets before it was removed, NBC News found. Another account allegedly used a photo of a veteran who died last month to pose as a Trump supporter."

Posing as the black folk. Not surprising at all.

And like many of the suspended accounts on twitter, facebook etc. I imagine we will discover once again twitter/facebook will claim the suspensions were an error.

 

[Ikari]

Point is, who are Twitter to police whom they feel they are on the side?

Seems a reasonable argument, for instance, if a male were to identify as a female and found a picture online it would be okay.
What makes this any different?

Twitter owns Twitter, they can police their site as they feel fit. But this was apparently investigated and they found that the owners of the accounts were not who they were claiming to be. There's been a little bit of a clamp down on Fake News and Russian Bots this election cycle.

 

[Guyzilla]

What if they identify has a black person?

I identify as a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, so the court is already full.

 

[Deuce]

Fo they only police catfish that support Trump or do they bsn all catfish? What is their policy and what have been the results of that policy? Can you answer those questions?

All catfish.

Any fake accounts they find get banned. Twitter has banned, literally, tens of millions of accounts. Are you seriously claiming that ALL of those were fake Trump supporting accounts?

 

[trouble13]

Twitter owns Twitter, they can police their site as they feel fit. But this was apparently investigated and they found that the owners of the accounts were not who they were claiming to be. There's been a little bit of a clamp down on Fake News and Russian Bots this election cycle.

Think about the standard you just used as a justification. That would mean they could ban anyone who does not accurately portray anything. Age, sex, weight, politics, wealth, education, or any number of things that people commonly lie about. Do they ban all those people or do they arribtrarily pick and choose who they ban.
I think there is a very real legal debate about who they can and can not ban according to their policy.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

I'm asking what their policy is and no they can not have whatever policy they want. They are restricted by the same laws progressives love so much.

No, they’re not. They’re a private business. They can change their ToS at any time and have provisions written into it that we all accept when we sign up for an account there.

If you don’t understand how capitalism works, just ask.

 

[Ikari]

Think about the standard you just used as a justification. That would mean they could ban anyone who does not accurately portray anything. Age, sex, weight, politics, wealth, education, or any number of things that people commonly lie about. Do they ban all those people or do they arribtrarily pick and choose who they ban.
I think there is a very real legal debate about who they can and can not ban according to their policy.

They ban folk all the time, and if people are making things up to spread fake news, they will ban them as well. It's a private company in the end, you have no right to their servers.

 

[trouble13]

What if they identify has a black person?

This should be an issue thats near and dear to you considering you run a message board. Do you feel you can ban anyone for any reason? Do you feel like you have entered into a contractual agreement with your users?

 

[beefheart]

Twitter can have whatever policies it wants. Free market, baybee.

Conservatives are all for the free market...until they aren't...

 

[trouble13]

No, they’re not. They’re a private business. They can change their ToS at any time and have provisions written into it that we all accept when we sign up for an account there.

If you don’t understand how capitalism works, just ask.

So you think if twitters policy was no gay members were allowed, that would be legal?

 

[Aunt Antifa]

Conservatives are all for the free market...until they aren't...

They created Parler, which has an even more heinous ToS, and they’re still whining about twitter. Libruls build these platforms and it kills them that they can’t get any traction cause most of the country thinks cons are garbage.

 

[trouble13]

Conservatives are all for the free market...until they aren't...

Progressives love the commerce clause until it interferes with them getting what they want.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

So think if twitters policy was no gay members were allowed, that would be legal?

How would you enforce that? Do you have an analogy that is rooted in reality, let alone any law?

 

[trouble13]

How would you enforce that? Do you have an analogy that is rooted in reality, let alone any law?

They would enforce it the same way they do it now. If they determine you are gay, they ban you. Do you think that would be legal or not?