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Thread on Twitter's suspension of my account ( @faytuks)
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On Election Day, November 3rd, Faytuks (among other accounts) were suddenly suspended by Twitter. Some of these accounts include FJNewsReporter, Crisis_Intel, SVnews & Deven_Intel. Immediately following the ban...
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On Election Day, November 3rd, Faytuks (among other accounts) were suddenly suspended by Twitter. Some of these accounts include FJNewsReporter, Crisis_Intel, SVnews & Deven_Intel. Immediately following the ban...
... our good friend @disclosetv made a forum where we all could talk about what is going on. Initially I thought the suspension was related to the sharing of videos from the terror attack in Wien, however, at the time of the ban I had only one video up from the attack...
... & the video contained nothing but gunfire, in addition, it was shared 10+ minutes after it was shot nor was it depicting any sensitive information. After examining that theory I jumped to my other theory that it was related to Election Day. Twitter & big tech had warned...
...for months that they would crack down on what they labeled as "Election Day misinformation". This suspicion of mine were confirmed when I read this Reuters article. As Twitter never told me why I got suspended this is the only "explanation" for it. https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-twitter-idUSKBN27K08F
There are so many inaccuracies in this article that I don't even know where to start. However, it's important for me to point out why this is total bogus. First of all, the article starts with the following line "Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc on Tuesday suspended several...
..recently created and mostly right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested U.S. election for violating their policies". The first thing that caught by attention is the phrase "recently created and mostly right-leaning news accounts"
( @faytuks) was created in 2017, so it was certainly not a new account. Also, I am not "right-leaning" and even if I was, why is that even relevant? Further down the article this phrase can be read: "Twitter said the accounts had been suspended for violating its policy against...
...“coordination” by posting identical content while appearing independent or engaging in other covertly automated behavior". This is also wrong. When I posted news I was always making sure that I sourced where my information was coming from. Even if I was posting "identical"...
... posts (which I didn't) that is not a good enough reasoning to suspend an account. This suspension method is also very selective because I've literally seen 100s of accounts just copying each other's content without ever being touched by twitter.
The pictures in the next posts will show my Election Day coverage before getting suspended by Twitter:
More pictures:
The posts above is EVERYTHING that I posted on Election Day. Nothing "political" nor any unsourced claims. The majority of my posts was regarding when polls opened.
So @Twitter, How is the posts above violating any Twitter Rules?
So @Twitter, How is the posts above violating any Twitter Rules?
In the Reuters article you can also find this paragraph "Some of the suspended accounts were closely read by the media in Russia, which has been accused of meddling in the 2016 election. Both SVNewsAlerts and Faytuks, which had only 11,000 followers, have had their tweets...
...highlighted dozens of times in state-controlled Sputnik and RT, as observed by researcher Chris Scott and confirmed by Reuters". This particular paragraph made my head spin. First of all, how is this even relevant and 2nd of all is it my fault that "Russian media" read my...
...content?. In addition, I have never noticed this and last time I checked it's not illegal to be sourced by media outlets. After I read this I contacted the authors of the article (Joseph Menn & Katie Paul) to explain how inaccurately I was portrayed. Katie never replied...
... however, Joseph Menn actually replied within a few hours were he told me this: (Picture below). I answered his questions but he hasn't said sent me anything since our initial encounter. I have also reached out to other journalists but no one replied
(Sent on November 3rd)
(Sent on November 3rd)
I Know that my account was suspended based on Twitter algorithms & that twitter never bothered to do a human-review of my account. Since the suspension I have sent 4 appeals and Twitter has never responded. Before the suspension my account had never been restricted...
... so this really took me by surprise. I really hope this explained what happened & additional info will be posted underneath.
I don't often ask for people to engage with my posts but I would really appreciate it if people could share this thread so Twitter sees it
Merry Xmas!
I don't often ask for people to engage with my posts but I would really appreciate it if people could share this thread so Twitter sees it
Merry Xmas!
