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Here's a story that's funny, sad& scary all at the same time.

Headline
"Twitter Thanos-snaps, half the Avengers suspended"

Do I have your interest? Keep reading.

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Tuesday, Feb 4th, the morning after the Iowa caucus kerfuffle, @1Ironman2020 posted a tweet cautioning against falling prey to propaganda hashtags meant to divide us. The tweet was IMMEDIATELY swarmed with bots& trolls.
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Minutes later, Ironman & 9 other #HeroesResist members who had responded to the tweet, supporting it, were suddenly GONE. They'd been mass reported& suspended under false pretences. 3/

@1ironman2020 -accused of 'manipulating/spamming hashtags'
@1spiderman2020 & @MjResisting are a real-life couple who share a home(&an IP address) their accts interact w/each other -accused of being the same person running a botnet.
Others faced similar false accusations. 4/

@TwitterSupport refuses to respond to the appeals that have been filed by these people. They silenced 10 voices because their algorithms can't tell the difference between human beings, and the bots reporting them. 5/

Look under the hashtags #FalseSuspension #MassSuspension #BringBackHeroes #BringBackOurHeroes #FreeTheHeroes and see the huge outpouring of people in the #Resistance trying to vouch for these 10 people, trying to get the attention of @Twitter &get them reinstated 6/

Tony explains more about the situation in a blog post.
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hrgraphicsstudio.com/2020/02/07/fri…

We'll keep doing #WhatEverItTakes to bring our friends back, and we're asking you to help. Because if they can silence the voices of these ten people in one shot, who's next?
#StrongerTogether 8/

These are the ten people who are victims of twitter's mass false suspension:

@1ironman2020
@CapRogers2020
@1Spiderman2020
@MjResisting
@TheWaspResists
@CaptMarvel2020
@BruceBanner2020
@ThorResisting
@PepperResists
@NickFury2020

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