Quote:One of the most direct sources of information from the Ukraine-Russia border, such as Russian tank divisions and helicopters heading to Ukraine, has been social media accounts sharing photos and videos from the Luhansk and Donbas regions in Ukraine.

But Twitter has been suspending the accounts of researchers and open-source intelligence (OSINT) researchers, sharing such content.

OSINT researchers Kyle Glen and Oliver Alexander had their accounts temporarily suspended for violating an unspecified Twitter policy.



“I am back again after having been locked out twice in 24 hours,” Alexander tweeted. “First time for a post debunking the ‘foiled sabotage/gas attack’ and second time for a post debunking the ‘Ukrainian attack into Russia.’”

There were similar suspensions even outside the English-speaking world. The Spanish-language Mendo en Conflicto account was suspended, as well as the French-language OSINT account Neurone Intelligence and Brazilian’s Noticias e Guerras.

“It is an attack on journalism and people who rely on these accounts to post the facts over other news outlets,” said Kyle Glen, co-founder of @Conflicts. “Twitter has…a responsibility to ensure its own reporting systems aren’t being misused by individuals or nations.”

Twitter admitted that there was no evidence of a coordinated campaign and that they had censored “in error.”

“We’ve been proactively monitoring for emerging narratives that are violative of our policies, and, in this instance, we took enforcement action on a number of accounts in error,” a Twitter spokesperson said.

Some researchers noted that the suspensions affected English-language accounts with large followings, The Verge reported.

Normally, erroneous suspensions affect non-English language accounts with relatively smaller followings, suggesting that the suspensions were the result of human moderation, not automated algorithms.

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It sounds like its time for reasonable people to just not click. And never tweet.

At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

(02-24-2022 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

Well, your feed can be full of something, but if it is being selectively edited you think you are getting a full picture when you are only getting what they want you to get.

You know, like they do with COVID and China. You can find plenty of both on Twitter, as long as it’s approved.

(02-24-2022 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

So you are saying that twitter has not been suspending accounts even when twitter has admitted they have erroneously?

I guess they made an error when they admitted they had erroneously suspended accounts.....


wow

USSA

the hive mind is really confused. they havent been clearly told what to think

(02-24-2022 02:36 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(02-24-2022 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

So you are saying that twitter has not been suspending accounts even when twitter has admitted they have erroneously?

I guess they made an error when they admitted they had erroneously suspended accounts.....


wow

I said nothing of the sort.

Just saying that if my feed is that much...it stands to reason that there's thousands and thousands more tweets with similar content...so it'd be quite a task to have any coordinated effort to censor things. So that seems to support this report that the suspensions in question were likely just mistakes and not some sort of censorship.

(02-24-2022 02:58 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(02-24-2022 02:36 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(02-24-2022 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

So you are saying that twitter has not been suspending accounts even when twitter has admitted they have erroneously?

I guess they made an error when they admitted they had erroneously suspended accounts.....


wow

So that seems to support this report that the suspensions in question were likely just mistakes and not some sort of censorship.

(02-24-2022 02:58 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(02-24-2022 02:36 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(02-24-2022 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

So you are saying that twitter has not been suspending accounts even when twitter has admitted they have erroneously?

I guess they made an error when they admitted they had erroneously suspended accounts.....


wow

I said nothing of the sort.

Just saying that if my feed is that much...it stands to reason that there's thousands and thousands more tweets with similar content...so it'd be quite a task to have any coordinated effort to censor things. So that seems to support this report that the suspensions in question were likely just mistakes and not some sort of censorship.

Just a few oopsies here and there.

Nothing to see here, move along!

(02-24-2022 02:36 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(02-24-2022 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  At least 75% of my twitter feed is Ukraine/Russia related. Showing images of bombs, attacks, fires, vehicle movements...reports of Russian troop movements, reports of Russians taking the airport near Kyiv, taking Chernobyl, pictures of protests in Russia and Ukraine...and on and on.

So you are saying that twitter has not been suspending accounts even when twitter has admitted they have erroneously?

I guess they made an error when they admitted they had erroneously suspended accounts.....


wow

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