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26 Dec

@TwitterSafety

Here's a proposal for @TwitterSafety: modify the "Account suspended" screen to include a brief description of which rule/rules the banned account violated, and have "Learn more" link to the related section of the Twitter Rules.

(Images are mockups with made-up account names.)

Why make this change? Currently, when an account with any degree of notoriety gets suspended, conspiracy theories about why it was removed quickly take root. In the absence of information about the reason for the suspension, the conspiracy theories are often accepted as fact.

Often, the dominant narrative(s) for why a given account got banned are established by the account operator(s) themselves, either on other platforms or via friends/alts on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, these narratives tend to cast the suspension as unfair, regardless of the facts.

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@conspirator0

23 Dec

@ZellaQuixote

Oh look, a bunch of accounts named George with GAN-generated profile pics are tweeting identical tweets. #HolidayShenaniGANs

(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the technique used by thispersondoesnotexist.com to generate fake face pics)

cc: @ZellaQuixote

@CeloLaunch

The spammy Georges are part of a larger network of 2500 newly-created accounts promoting cryptocurrency launchpad site @CeloLaunch. Between them, these 2250 accounts have just 25 unique first names and 50 unique last names. All have zero likes, zero followers, and 1 or 2 tweets.

@CeloLaunch

Most of these accounts have tweeted exactly twice: a duplicated tweet promoting @CeloLaunch, and a retweet of a December 12th @CeloLaunch tweet (a few missed either the duplicate tweet or the retweet). All tweets were sent (allegedly) via the Twitter web app.

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@conspirator0

20 Dec

@CheiaKeeta

Sometimes inauthentic accounts are difficult to spot, but this is not one of those times. @CheiaKeeta (permanent ID 1432532435338629124) has helpfully used the #NewProfilePic hashtag to document a history of stealing multiple people's photos and using them as profile pics.

@CheiaKeeta

Although @CheiaKeeta claims to be an ICU nurse in New York, the two "nurse selfies" posted by the account depict two different people, neither of whom appears to work in a New York ICU. (@CheiaKeeta removed name/employer info from the pics in a possible attempt at obfuscation.)

@CheiaKeeta

Casting additional doubt on @CheiaKeeta's claims to be a New York ICU nurse is a tweet stating that 33 COVID patients died in @CheiaKeeta's unit on Sept 30, 2021. Since the entirety of NYC experienced 19 COVID deaths on the day in question, this appears to be false.

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@conspirator0

10 Dec

@TrackerTrial

I appreciate everyone who tried to bring this thread about the @TrackerTrial account to the attention of @krystalball. Unfortunately, she and @esaagar opted to spin its suspension as a conspiracy involving Twitter's new CEO rather than reporting on facts:

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1462845901253267462

Seriously, I can't get over how utterly terrible the "reporting" in that video is. There are two minutes or so of rambling about "bots" that bears no relation to anything even remotely real about bots.

This suspension in particular has highlighted that many people seem to believe *all* Twitter suspensions are unjustified. While Twitter does get things wrong, this doesn't mean all suspensions are bogus and journalists shouldn't be lazily repeating gossip without checking facts.

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@conspirator0

5 Dec

https://twitter.com/SherylLewellen/status/1467243655488589826

There are multiple actual journalists reporting on this event, but for some reason everyone is sharing this tweet from an account made last month with an AI-generated face pic as its avatar.

Please be cautious about helping potentially inauthentic accounts build an audience.

https://twitter.com/SherylLewellen/status/1467243655488589826

Note that the tweet in question was posted via the "Twitter Web App" rather than one of the Twitter smartphone apps, meaning it was likely tweeted from a computer rather than the cell phone of someone on the scene. (TLDR, it's probably plagiarized from whoever took the video.)

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1322704400226394112

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28 Nov

@Droopy735

Would you buy a used Twitter account for $900? At first glance, @Droopy735 (permanent ID 84861619) looks like a well-established, popular account - it's over a decade old and has over 100 thousand followers, after all. What's not to like? (As it turns out, a lot.)

@Droopy735

Despite being created in 2009, @Droopy735 gained almost all of its 104K followers in November 2021, and none of these newly-created followers has ever liked a tweet.

@Droopy735

The swarm of newly-created accounts that followed @Droopy735 are part of a fake follower botnet consisting of (at least) 197134 accounts, all created in November 2021. None has ever tweeted or liked a tweet, and there are definite patterns in the account names.

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