Twitter's abuse and inauthentic post problem is a spam problem, and they are fighting it with anti-spam measures from the 1990s. They are literally grepping for a manually maintained list of keywords. This would be a joke if it wasn't destroying democracy. https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1323516437969862656
It's worse than that. When Twitter and Facebook experiment with stronger anti-spam measures, they find that Republicans get blocked. Rather than admitting that this means Republicans are spammers, they back off from the changes. https://twitter.com/LelonStoldt/status/1323689438275227648
Here's an example of what Twitter should be looking for. This kind of bot nonsense goes on all the time. A tweet equivalent of anti-spam measures from the 2000s would spot and disable them all instantaneously. https://twitter.com/Asbronaut/status/1324007191112765441
More: https://twitter.com/jdickerson/status/1324542447259656192
More: https://twitter.com/AlisonAgosti/status/1328208054614036482
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