Reminds me when Twitter banned 20-30k “Russian bot” accounts around 2018. The comrades at Boy Boy printed some tweets, then asked people on the street if the tweets were from a banned russian bot account or not.
There was no trick to it, it was just really, really difficult to determine if “Liverpool won tonight! So proud :smiling face with heart-eyes:” is enough for Twitter to consider you a Russian bot but admitting to regime change in Venezuela (like they did a month ago) wasn’t.
Reminds me when Twitter banned 20-30k “Russian bot” accounts around 2018. The comrades at Boy Boy printed some tweets, then asked people on the street if the tweets were from a banned russian bot account or not.
There was no trick to it, it was just really, really difficult to determine if “Liverpool won tonight! So proud :smiling face with heart-eyes:” is enough for Twitter to consider you a Russian bot but admitting to regime change in Venezuela (like they did a month ago) wasn’t.