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Twitter Appears to Censor Wikileaks-Related Trends

by fiaz on 12/6/10, 12:52 PM with 11 comments

• by jacquesm on 12/6/10, 1:57 PM

  The answers from the twitter guy are here, I'd say this has been solidly debunked:

  http://studentactivism.net/2010/12/05/wikileaks-twitter-3/#c...

  Scan for 'Josh Elman' (twitter) and 'Angus Johnston' the guy that originally raised the issue.

• by middayc on 12/6/10, 3:05 PM

  more analysis here: http://bubbloy.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/twitter-is-censoring...

  the "manual" test: http://swizec.com/blog/twitter-censoring-the-wikileaks-debat...

• by ck2 on 12/6/10, 8:24 PM

  It looks very much like something is "smacking it down".

  http://studentactivism.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/sundays-1...

  Either an algorithm or human trigger.

  Are we reaching the point where the only "honest" sites are offshore and away from political influence?

• by tptacek on 12/6/10, 2:48 PM

  Idle speculation, all but disproved the day before this superficial piece was even written. Flagged.

• by wglb on 12/6/10, 4:26 PM

  Enough wikileaks already.