Twitter has deleted, so far today, 150 followers from my feed out of (presumably) some sort of security necessity. Virtually every day, 100 to 300 followers are dutifully deleted. About 2,000 weekly. But Kremlin disinformation? Now *that* can freely appear *anywhere* on Twitter.
Can you imagine if Twitter policed Kremlin disinformation as fanatically as it polices the follower counts of Trump critics? If it removed one Kremlin-pushed "news" story from its platform for every one follower it removes from this (and many other) feeds?
That would be amazing.
That would be amazing.
Twitter has never explained to its users how it identifies followers that need to be removed from certain accounts—and I don't mean one at a time, I mean *mass purges* of 20 to 100 followers *all at once* that occur over and over throughout the day. Every *single* day. See below: 
This began just a few months ago, and is the reason the growth of this feed has been halted in its tracks. Since this new purging program began (again, whose contours and purpose and algorithm has never been explained), this feed has lost probably 25,000 followers to mass purges.
I know this is happening to many many people. I'm just saying that we don't know why it's happening, to whom it's happening, what decisions caused it to happen—and why *these* purges continue to occur throughout the day every day when Twitter is *allowing* Kremlin disinformation.
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