(JACK HADFIELD) Twitter banned over 70,000 accounts in a mass purge.
by JACK HADFIELD, January 11th, 2021
Twitter has been accused of lying after admitting to banning over 70,000 accounts, despite claiming on Friday that fluctuating follower counts was completely normal.
Twitter announced on Monday evening that following the protests on Capitol Hill, the social media platform had banned more than 70,000 accounts from its site, which it claimed were “engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service.”
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1348805513442574337
Unsurprisingly, when Twitter started intitiating the mass bans on Friday, many conservatives across the platform noted that their follower counts dropped, with many losing thousands of followers. However, in a statement at the time, Twitter Support informed users that the “fluctuations in follower counts” was purely down to challenging accounts suspected of spam, despite knowing the mass bans had already started.
To clear up confusion about fluctuations in follower counts:
In order to prevent spam, we regularly challenge accounts to confirm details like email and phone number. Until that info is confirmed, these accounts aren’t included in follower counts. https://t.co/8BYcBCmxxA
— Support (@Support) January 9, 2021
Following the release of the statement on Monday, some drew the connections between Twitter’s Friday statement, and accused the Big Tech company of flat-out lying to the faces of their users.
Why lie two days ago? pic.twitter.com/KmcyuRiH3l
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) January 12, 2021
Twitter and Facebook are about as transparent as a brick wall. https://t.co/Xm6QIJzb1M
— Chris Pandolfo (@ChrisCPandolfo) January 12, 2021
They’re lying now even. 70,000 is low by a factor of 10 if I’m guessing on the most conservative hedge. It’s probably more like a factor of 20 or 30. https://t.co/cWBGAQOFFY
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) January 12, 2021
The mass ban of the accounts follows the permanent suspension of President Trump by Twitter, with many other Big Tech sites like Facebook and Instagram temporarily suspending his accounts until at least after the inauguration on January 20th.
National File reached out to Twitter, inquiring as to whether the company meant to put out the potentially severely misleading statement, but did not receive a response by the time of publication. It is also unclear as to whether the accounts targeted the purge were actually QAnon accounts, as Twitter claimed.
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