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Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots (vice.com)
4 points by exogeny on April 25, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


>A spokesperson for Twitter told VICE News that they’re “prioritizing the removal of COVID-19 content when it has a call to action that could potentially cause harm,” a policy that they adopted on March 18. Since then, they’ve removed more than 2,200 tweets.

LOL. Imagine thinking 2,200 is some large or notable amount.

As has been discussed lots and lots in regards to Twitter's feckless and pathetic attempts to curb this problem, they're heavily incentivized not to: as a public company, they live and die by vanity metrics. And if turns out a very, very large percentage of their activity is fraudulent, well..




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