This was so easy for them technically speaking, so its baffling they didn’t take action years ago.
Twitter doing something about automated mass propaganda. This is a positive development, but much more is needed. https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2018/automation-and-the-use-of-multiple-accounts.html …
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Bot detection, fraud detection are well-solved problems (ask the advertising industry and online payments industry). Twitter propaganda bots are not sophisticated compared to adversaries found elsewhere. Fixing the problem is purely a matter of will.
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It would be interesting to see how effective this current set of restrictions. With numbers.
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Good question. I’d love to know the technicalities behind this as well.
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