Friday, February 26, 2016

We Live In A Democracy?

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

An anonymous reader writes with the key claim of a story at The Daily Kos:


 In a truly egregious move yesterday, Twitter suspended the account responsible for #WhichHillary, activist @GuerrillaDems. T

witter also removed #WhichHillary from trending status, which is odd, considering the hashtag received more than 450,000 tweets in less than 24 hours. 

Twitter now says the suspension of @GuerillaDems was a mistake. 

Although this may just be a coincidence, it isn't the first time Twitter has exerted political control

Many users think it is a demonstrable conflict of interest, in light of Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani's Sunday, 2/28 fundraiser with Clinton.

The Daily Kos itself offers at least a perfunctory caution that it's unclear "whether it was intentional removal, or algorithmic coincidence."

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