An anti-fascist researcher says her Twitter account was suspended after someone reported a 2019 tweet of hers following Twitter's new “private media policy”
Researchers fear the new ban on posts sharing people's private information will be ‘emboldening to the fascists’ eager to keep their identities concealed.
Washington Post Drew Harwell
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@krisgoldsmith85
Kristofer Goldsmith
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NEW: Last night nazis of Charlottesville-riot-infamy instructed thousands of followers to mass-report accounts of 48 journalists, anti-racist activists, + anti-fascist researchers for retroactive “violations” of @TwitterSafety's new “Private Information Policy.” Some down already…
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@drewharwell
Drew Harwell
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New: Far-right activists and neo-Nazis are weaponizing Twitter's new rule against anti-extremism researchers. Fears of a chilling effect for those documenting real-world hate: “Emboldening to the fascists” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@verambergen
Vera Bergengruen
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“Researchers fear the new ban on posts sharing people's private information will be ‘emboldening to the fascists’ eager to keep their identities concealed. ‘Things now unexpectedly work more in our favor,’ one Nazi sympathizer wrote.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@jeffjarvis
Jeff Jarvis
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As I said, as predicted: Far right is using Twitter's new rule against anti-extremism researchers https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@__chicagojoe_
@__chicagojoe_
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“They won't let us doxx them anymore! This is so unfair!” https://twitter.com/...
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@ericajoy
Erica Joy
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really? retroactively applying policy to old tweets and then locking and suspending accounts based on the retroactive application of policy? that's what we're doing? do better, @twitter. https://twitter.com/...
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@evacide
Eva
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Well-meaning policies can have serious blowback. I'm particularly concerned about Twitter's new privacy policy because they appear to be enforcing it retroactively against tweets that predate the policy. https://twitter.com/...
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@mathewi
Mathew Ingram
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I wrote about how Twitter's new privacy policy on posting images is likely to clash with journalism. How will the company decide who is a “public figure,” or what is “in the public interest?” The answers to those and other questions remain unknown https://www.cjr.org/...
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@digiphile
Alex Howard
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“a well-intentioned idea that sounds like an absolute horrorshow to actually implement,” in part because social media itself has made it “incredibly thorny” to determine who is a public figure."-@Normative https://www.cjr.org/...