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   Will Oremus (willoremus@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 00:02:58 JST Will Oremus

   Trump supporters aren't imagining it—they really do get their posts taken down and accounts suspended more on social media than liberals, a new analysis published in Nature finds.

   But! That doesn't mean content moderation is biased. It turns out the discrepancy is better explained by the fact that they share way more low-quality information. That's true even when "low-quality" is defined by Republicans. My latest on the findings: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/03/nature-study-social-media-liberal-bias-censorship/

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     Samir Al-Battran (samir@m.fedica.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 00:03:35 JST Samir Al-Battran

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     @willoremus
     From my experience working on Twitter tools well over a decade,
     the main reason for account suspension is not sharing links but rather being flagged as a bot.
     Many violate the automation rules or just behave like bots.
     I even reached out personally to some of them and told them to stop their aggressive behaviour but they all brushed it off as "I have been doing it for a long time and nothing happened", but when their accounts get suspended they cry "cancel culture"