Twitter stock slides 19% after fake-account purge, new rules in Europe

originally posted by: face23785

originally posted by: JBurns
a reply to: sine.nomine

Good to see.

Their "fake accounts" are largely conservative voices they've chosen to intentionally suppress.

I wish them nothing but total failure. Their shareholders should punish them dearly for this typical socialist authoritarian BS move.

Good bye FaceBook/Twitter

The standards for calling someone a "fake" or a "bot" are ridiculous. I've had my account labeled a bot. Basically if you don't use the service the way they think you should, you're a bot. In my case, I hardly ever tweet my own content, I mostly just retweet people I follow. I also only check it once or twice a day, so I retweet a lot of things at once. That gets me labeled a bot. That's absurd.

It is absolutely absurd

I'm not a fan of government regulation, but this is one case where anti-trust statutes need to be applied. Monopolies (especially monopolies on INFORMATION) must be de-centralized

millions of fake accounts

So were those bogus / bot accounts, or fake celebrity accounts, or the worst of all: "fake news" (anti-establishment) accounts?