Well here's a cheery story! Conservatives melt down as Twitter annihilates fake accounts.

[LAS14]

Conservatives were enraged last month when activist James O’Keefe published a series of undercover videos purporting to show Twitter engineers boasting of their ability to “shadow-ban” far-right users, or hide their tweets from appearing online. Those claims were quickly debunked, but fears that Twitter—an alleged bastion of Bay Area liberalism—is censoring conservative speech runs deep. They resurfaced on Wednesday, when several prominent right-wing users complained that they’d lost thousands of followers overnight, while others claimed to be locked out of their accounts. “Looks like thousands of Twitter users committed the thought crime of tweeting about ‘God,’ ‘the American flag,’ and ‘guns,’ were taken off the platform,” O’Keefe tweeted. “Our undercover reporting into Twitter showed those terms indicate to engineers you are ‘for sure a bot.’”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/conservatives-melt-down-as-twitter-annihilates-fake-accounts

[tanyev]

1. Ooh, what kind of costume does he have for undercover Twitter reporting?

A blue bird suit?

[ProudLib72]

2. tRump lost half his followers overnight!

It's so sad these assholes need an army of bots to feel special.

[DFW]

3. Then let them start their own version of Twitter

Too bad if no one pays any attention to it except the 4% of them that are real.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Wow, magical thinkers pissed that their imaginary friends have been removed from social media...

talk about living in another world.