Allowing Twitter users to post tweets to a global audience and then restrict replies to specific accounts sets up a situation where propaganda and disinformation can be easily spread without the ability to dissenting opinions to be heard in the replies. One could very easily ...
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create a bunch of accounts to reply to the tweet expressing support which could easily create various methods to spread disinformation to a mass audience.
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It would still be possible to RT with comment and correct false claims that way.
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The issue here is that a verified account with hundreds of thousands of followers will get a lot more impressions than someone with a low follower count RT'ing the original tweet to make a reply.
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You can see exactly this going on with a lot of middle eastern accounts right now. The amount of disinformation / influence campaigns using this "tweet reply" method is absolutely mind blowing. Will be doing a further analysis in the coming days.
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