Fri Jul 17 20:48:43 2020
<853f0f69> The Twitter hack reveals that their admin tools allow Twitter employees to stop accounts from appearing in search and trending
One of the more interesting things to come out of the Twitter hack is this screenshot of Twitter’s admin tools: –
<https://i.imgur.com/CZ184X9.jpg>
Note the “search blacklist” and “trends blacklist” buttons.
Twitter has been deleting tweets that include the above screenshot, as well as suspending any accounts that tweet it out.
Here’s a Motherboard article about this: –
<http://archive.vn/UAFme>
But I’m sure no Twitter staff would ever abuse those buttons against people whose opinions they dislike, just like no Reddit mod would ever abuse their position to delete posts that they don’t like, lol…..
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