Twitter Gulag Part 4 - the 5G Era and Twitter Nukes
In our prior installments on Twitter Gulag, Trenches Labs exposed the mechanisms used by partisan activists to manipulate Twitter safety algorithms for the purpose of silencing opponents. Readers will remember that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo had categorically denied that any such activity was taking place and that his systems were too “sophisticated” to allow such manipulation. […]
Trenches Labs: How #TwitterGulag Works Part 3 - Report Someone For SPAM 100s Of Times
In our prior two posts on How TwitterGulag Works we covered Reply Traps as well as how to see Blocks accumulate in real time. Together, these articles show that there is some degree of sophistication in the Twitter SPAM algorithms. That degree of sophistication carries an assumption - that any account can only issue a […]
Trenches Labs: How #TwitterGulag Works Part 2 - Seeing Active Blocks and Sweeps
In our prior post in this series we replicated a Reply Trap for sending an account to TwitterGulag. If you are unfamiliar with TwitterGulag and how Twitter activists use the platform to silence opponents you should read that article first. For those familiar with TwitterGulag and account suspensions, that post showed just one of the […]
Trenches Labs : How TwitterGulag Works Part 1 - Setting Reply Traps
UPDATE: This 4 part series is essential to understanding how Twitter Suspension Algorithms work and make Twitter users susceptible to being suspended from Twitter by other users. Twitter modifies these algorithms as it tries to fight SPAM, but “hacktivists” continue to exploit these modifications and get conservatives on Twitter sent to Twitter Gulag. We urge […]
#OpShoqTheMonkey results in B/R Attack
The piece we published last Friday regarding our attempts to test the block/report for spam feature on Twitter certainly got quite a response, to say the least. To begin, the Lord of the Flies himself felt it worthy of a tweet. And then, on Saturday, this showed up in my @ column on Twitter as […]
#OpShoqTheMonkey : Testing @dickc’s Claim About #TwitterGulag
For some time now, conservative users of Twitter have been well aware of the Twitter Gulag, the term created to describe unjustified suspensions of conservative accounts, usually done by a small but effective group of opposing users. Now, it’s to be expected that the perpetrators of this silliness and their supporters would deny it’s existence. […]