I’ve just seen a tweet about an IOF soldier harassing a person (family?) and telling them that this is his land, and before I could see more it just removed it right in front of me, and this isn’t the first time an anti-Israel tweet has been removed from my home page right in front of me.
I know it also removes tweets I may not be interested in (no idea how it gauges that to be honest), but considering I check on anti-Israel content all the time, this absolutely would not fall under that; additionally people I’m actually FOLLOWING have their tweets disappear from my home page; why are people I’m FOLLOWING having their content be hidden from me?!
All social media in the US is controlled by the CIA and state department
Is there evidence for this? Because I’m inclined to believe it. I joined tiktok when they first threatened to ban it, and saw so much Palestinian content that I really have to assume that it’s being actively blocked on other platforms.
Plenty. From Snowden, to the history of the people working at these social media companies.
It’s Operation Mockingbird for the digital age.
I haven’t ever really been a twitter person, but when I nuked all my big socials years ago one of the driving factors was how my friends would tell me that my posts rarely showed up in their feeds even though I was one of like 2-3 people they explicitly liked stuff on and selected to follow.
the thing was, I rarely posted any heavy shit. usually just short little quips with a detournéd advertisement or other homemade graphic lampooning imperialism, consumerism, or what have you. maybe the occasional link to a generally accepted media outlet with a story about something fucked, but I made sure half of my posts were just like cool nature photos and shit because I didn’t want people to be burnt out on my feed.
yes, I was that kind of bozo who was really trying to curate my feed to reach an audience of friends and share my values in a digestible format. literally making only 2 posts per day, one always light and easy.
anyway, even though there would be engagement (likes, comments) people would always say they weren’t being fed my stuff. they had to click my profile to see what I had put up and it was “annoying” and made them mad because their feeds just kept showing them stuff they hated.
that was literally 4+ years ago.
people still casually assume their feeds are under some level of their control. they aren’t. I remember when my sister got in tiktok and she still parrots that line, that it only shows you what you like.
at best, these platforms are only effective at giving you that impression. their entire reason for being is to exercise control over your information exposure and monetize that control. they will never surrender this incredible power to their users.
still having twitter in the year of our LORD two thousand and twenty four
Death to America
I deleted my twitter account last week.
I posted an anti-israel tweet, and after posting the word “israel” had changed to “Russia”. That was a step too far for me. How can anything on there be trusted if they are changing tweets after posting?
I don’t wanna accuse you of lying but… what? I struggle to believe that. I scroll through twitter for way too long each day and I have never heard or seen of that happening, surely you’re not the only person who that would’ve happened to. Seriously, my timeline is like 60% anti-Israel posts and if something like this were to happen, people would talk about it. I need to see more cases of this.
I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it myself. It only happened once, but saying that I deactivated my account minutes later in disgust so I couldn’t see it again.
If it happened to everyone all the time then it would be soon be all over the news, but a few selected cases here and there to discredit accounts. Maybe.
My tweet made absolutely no sense with the switched words so would be easily discounted/made to look like bot activity.
What on earth
Exactly. I knew I had typed it correctly because I always change the capital “I” to a lowercase “i” when typing the name of the temporary entity on my phone.
After posting, the tweet had changed the word to “Russia”. You can’t trust anything on that platform anymore.
YT has been deleting my comments on videos even if I avoid trigger words. Shits getting crazy out here.
There really is no point of using any SNS from silicon shithole at this point with three lettered agencies rampantly roaming around.
Yep can confirm. I’ve seen them disappear in real time, once just as my thumb was just a few centimetres away from the like button. Spooky shit.
In bad country…
Or as Amy Goodman quipped: if we had a state run media, how would it be any different?
Ngl I think that’s just twitter being shit, it’s constantly removing tweets from my timeline randomly too
