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2023-01-13 01:11 UTC

@thespoonless@epicure.social @ttpphd@mastodon.social Several of the studies were looking at suspended users - though they wouldn't have caught tweets they deleted within hours of posting, some researchers tracked plenty. I don't think that disproves it - and while I agree disinfo campaigns can be disastrous, every such tweet doesn't contain incivility or abuse (though I agree it's antisocial). I didn't do a search on bot behavior - I was only looking for studies on quote tweets.

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@thespoonless@epicure.social 2023-01-14 12:32

@hildabast@mastodon.online @ttpphd@mastodon.social It's good they managed to track some of the disinfo traffic. The more evidence, the better, especially if the EU is finally going to crack down. The bot behaviour was absolutely given free reign, and part of the disinfo campaigns in 2021, that Twitter platformed, and prevented genuine users (including me) from reporting...because the "automated processes" that "automatically" suspended users after we were mass-reported (falsely, in the case of those of us attempting to fight the disinfo), were prevented from reporting disinfo content and bad actors AT ALL. https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/yl4nwe/comment/iuwnm83/ So, the bad actors were allowed, with the UNSAFE Twitter "Safety"'s blessings, to game the "automated" processes to have those of us fighting disinfo suspended repeatedly...but we were not allowed access to those same "automated" processes to fight back, and do exactly the same thing to the foreign state bad actors that caused tens of millions of COVID deaths in 2021 (and more in 2022).

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