Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com)

Posted by yaelk on Friday February 26, 2016 @11:44AM from the #whichhillary dept.

An anonymous reader writes with the key claim of a story at The Daily Kos: In a truly egregious move yesterday, Twitter suspended the account responsible for #WhichHillary, activist @GuerrillaDems. Twitter also removed #WhichHillary from trending status, which is odd, considering the hashtag received more than 450,000 tweets in less than 24 hours. Twitter now says the suspension of @GuerillaDems was a mistake. Although this may just be a coincidence, it isn't the first time Twitter has exerted political control. Many users think it is a demonstrable conflict of interest, in light of Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani's Sunday, 2/28 fundraiser with Clinton. The Daily Kos itself offers at least a perfunctory caution that it's unclear "whether it was intentional removal, or algorithmic coincidence."

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It is intentional by NaCh0 · 2016-02-26 11:48 · Score: 5, Informative

Twitter also scrubbed #JeSiusMilo when they unverified Milo Yiannopoulos from Breitbart.
1. Re:It is intentional by Crashmarik · 2016-02-26 22:31 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  LOL you're full of crap. If Twitter wanted to prevent abuse they wouldn't have put Sarkeesian other abusers and doxers on the council. I can't imagine the level of mental gymnastics it took to overlook this.
  Lets talk R.S. McCain here
  https://reason.com/blog/2016/0...