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Twitter Now Lets You Report Accounts That You Suspect Are Bots (theverge.com)
Twitter is updating its reporting process to allow you to report accounts that you suspect are bots. "Now, when you tap the 'it's suspicious or spam' option under the report menu, you'll be able to specify why you think that, including an option to say 'the account tweeting this is fake,'" reports The Verge. From the report: Twitter announced the change through its official safety account today, and it's now live on both the web version and mobile version of the service. You can see an example of the mobile report flow pertaining to this update [via a tweet from @TwitterSafety.] According to a Twitter spokesperson, "The new reporting flow will allow us to collect more detailed information so we can identify and remove spam more effectively. With more details to review, we'll be adding more resources to our review processes."
Every single tweet.
It will be fun.
As are pretty much all the socials. The sooner we drop this stuff and get back to real life the better
I doubt even one of the NPC/Bot accounts which print pretty variations of 'orange man bad' will be banned, even if heavily reported.
Would only be fair.
they've been polluting the discourse of j public since before any of us?
At least that's what I would do if i had a twitter account
I think you [AmMoJo] have already been led down a wormhole by some AC troll. I see no reason to peek.
My initial reaction is that the obvious problem will be with bots that are programmed to submit bot reports on real users. To maximize the confusion, they'll obviously program the bots to look for humans that act like bots so they can more plausibly report them. Of course the same data will be useful in modifying their attack bots to act more human to make them more difficult to detect and purge.
My basic position is that Twitter is broken beyond redemption. MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) might be applicable to Facebook or even Slashdot, but Twitter is just FUBAR.
Apparently the troll wanted to lead the discussion down some Trumpian road. I actually have a comment that is slightly germane on that topic, given that #PresidentTweety is the de facto king of Twitter:
A good election is one between good candidates.
A bad election is one where voters are choosing the lesser evil.
The worst election is where the evil candidate "wins" by lying and assassinating the character of a good candidate.
The saddest part? In theory, an election between a good and bad candidate should be a landslide for the good one. In practice, it too often becomes a worst case election decided by big money and corporate cancers investing in the bad candidate because he's cheap. On November 6th I think we'll find out how much democracy still exists in America.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
This more subtle bit of TDS-addled "Russia! Russia! Russia!" mania brought to you by BeauHD, NPC extraordinaire.
Who else?
gab.com got shut down (temporarily) because a crazed shooter posted on there. Meanwhile Jihadists are allowed to openly post on twitter, and even moderates and moderate right users are attacked and censored. Jack Dorsey is a coward, and because influential people in the tech industry don't take a stand like the little subservient cowards they are, innocent people suffer:
Now the media is going after my wife and including both her and I alongside an image of the alleged terrorist. May God have mercy on the souls of these people. Pray for us. -- Gab CEO
Vote RED, as if your life depends on it. If you think it doesn't, you're not trying hard enough to imagine that could be you, running an independent libertarian platform that allows and invites all opinions, biases, and delusions of the left and the right. Twitter only serves the "left". I feel dirty using that word to describe the corporate democrats. They are ultra right in reality, under the covers. They are no Bernie Sanders ..
The fake left - corporate democrats - are using it to pump in cheap labor to devastate what's left of society. gab.com Remember Vote Red
-- Gab CEO - https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1057492667343417344
gab.com is an independent, uncensored platform similar to twitter but not run by a coward like Dorsey. They were taken down because a crazed shooter posted there, conveniently just before the mid terms (false flag if there ever was one). Twitter is loaded up with Jihadists and it's fine. Rand Paul was attacked an beaten.
These mobs need to be stopped. Even your tranny friends have no future under the corporate fake left's tyranny. This is all being orchestrated by the key henchman George Soros, who is on the payroll of the British royals, as is the UN.
And then there's the Republican sweep coming! Stay home, DEMS. Your liberal charms deserve your being near your trees. We have a border to protect. The invasion is pounding the border wall. Damn mongolians!
I really think so. Off topic postings. Postings with a political slant meant to stir up anger. They are bots that need tuning.
Do you see now what you have done, by trying to ban people who disagree with you?
Because that's all you sad little corporate democrats are - minions of the deep state, just condoms of the elite.
Never forget what you are , NPC: "Orange man Bad."
Do tards like you even know what's happening under your NPC noses?
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1057492667343417344
Do you understand that you will have nowhere to communicate if you disagree with anyone, on anything soon. Oh, you're an NPC, you don't get it..sorry I wasted yours and my time, and that you are a waste of humanity.
Watch gab.com a whole platform, libertarian and freedom of speech centered platform (yes an entire platform) for both left and right wack jobs to post their crap, and the idiots above celebrate it.. pathetic NPC's shouldn't be allowed an opinion, not a mind a vote.
Why give voice to people are in favor of making everyone voiceless...
You do that to yourselves. You cry wolf, and soon when the wolves come, there will be nobody to hear your cries. You simply won't exist online.
Jack Dorsey is a coward.
please don't ban bots. I want to read and decide for myself what is true and what is not. Don't be our nanny.
Maybe the NPC's are so dumbed down as people, Twitter "curators" (censors) can't tell if they are real are not!
"& virtue signalling on ..twi#er .." lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMXM845h9-Q&t=67
In Soviet Russia, the bots report you.
Cue the Trumpistas reporting all MSM tweets as bots.........
Twitter never said they were taking action against bots. They are taking action against fake accounts. There are plenty of bots that are not fake accounts, include in their name or description that they're a bot, do not disrupt any conversations, do not mislead users. That's explicitly allowed. Misleading reporting like this may end up getting those accounts reported too.
No way that could be abused, for political or popularity reasons.
and anyone who brings up inconvenient truths, or speaks a foreign dirty language. It's like another reader here pointed out, Twitter's list of millions of "troll posts" were often times just someone speaking Russian who made a regular tweet or shared a news link, and that eventually you will be called a troll just because you're not an American poster who constantly lets everyone know they are inside the pro-American circlejerk.
just let your own state-sponsored pro-American trolls report everyone on Twitter who disagrees with the status quo -- it wasn't US who did it, they were reported as trolls and removed to improve everyone's Twitter experience.
This is censorship and indirectly propaganda, by placing the who responsibility on other users so you can wash your hands of the ensuing mess.
Remember, the Red Menace is sneaky. Report any suspicious activity to your local office of the Ministry of Truth and Values. Only you can save America from the communist horde!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
An army of bots reporting every human user.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
by 'bot' you mean 'people who are not democrats' right?
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
L'Idiot
Thus opening the door to time-honored account-settling-by-reporting approach to things, nurtured and encouraged by all sorts of authoritarian, dictatorial systems worldover and throughout history.
I have 0 respect for anybody who uses Twitter. Self absorbed morons buying fake followings.
I haven't really used Twitter in a long time, are bots not allowed now? In the early days it seemed like Twitter was encouraging them. There were tutorials on how to create your own bot. I remember some horse story bot was celebrated almost as a hero. Have they changed their mind about them now? Or does Twitter differentiate between malicious and non-malicious bots?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Illegal immigrants. Legal ones are fine.
Let me not get in the way of hysteria, though.
Only good bots that follow the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS are allowed.
Whatever next.
If you disagree, I'll press the "suspicious or spam" button.
Orange man bad
There was the hobbyist computer, then came piracy followed by viruses, then malware and tracking cookies and ransomware and now we have bots to contend with.
At what point is the resources of computing going to be mostly used for battling others?
Oh wait,up next is AI.... well that does it, computer are no longer useful entrapment's of the users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A bunch of SJW/NPC types get together and "report" conservative videos on Youtube as "hate speech". And "the algorithm" deletes the video. Get ready for the same to happen with tweets.
I'm not repeating myself
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we're calling them what they are: Russians. And yes, they are trying to destabilize our country. I don't see anything wrong with wanting to put a stop to that, but your entire post implies that there is.
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It's weird that you point out the racism here. I mean, it's the Communists who murdered millions in Russia and the only thing that freaks you out is the fact that they might *speak* on the internet. Now you point out how eager you are to censor them for being Russian, as if it would somehow be okay if they were mass-murdering Communists.
The funniest part is the thing that's causing destabilization is your desire for censorship. Otherwise I'd just ignore them. I mean, they were posting memes of Jesus arm-wrestling Satan and other nonsense. But you actually think that *this* is causing the "destabilization" rather than your own rush to censor???
The funniest thing is that I don't think you're even an American, if I remember right, and I am.
Hopefully twitter will also take action against those who falsely report folks who claim an account is a bot. A week long timeout would be apropos, with a permanent ban for 3 strikes.
Twitter wasn't enough of an echo chamber already. Glad they are working to improve the situation!
Check your premises.
Z^-1
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.