Conservative Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected [Updated]
Matt Novak21 Feb, 18
Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight and conservatives on the platform aren’t happy about it. Twitter has yet to make a public statement about the issue, but right-wing users believe that they’re being targeted in a mass purge of suspected Russian bot accounts.
Conservative Twitter has even started a hashtag called #TwitterLockOut to talk about the purge, with some claiming that real people (as opposed to bots) were locked out of their accounts. Gizmodo has so far been unable to confirm that any real people have had their accounts mistakenly suspended. [Update, 12:11pm: See our update below about real people who have reached out to us.]
Everyone from well known figures of the alt-right, like neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, to people with Twitter handles like @Isa4031AMP, @DonofJustice, and @Patriotsavior seem to have been impacted by the move—at least when it comes to their follower counts.
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https://gizmodo.com/conservative-twitter-users-lose-thousands-of-followers-1823185428
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