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by djrogers 1860 days ago
I got to the 3rd set of tweets, and none of them were offensive in any way. It was obvious for 2 of the 3 which I was supposed to think was offensive (due to their support for specific political views WRT Israel / Hamas) and my guess was correct, but in neither case was there any actual offensive language.

No 'bad words', no slurs, no death threats/saber rattling, nothing. Just reasonably written 'I agree with the X point of view'.

Really really bad look on Twitter's part here...

Edit - to be clear, in both cases the non-offensive tweet said essentially the same thing with the same language, but took the opposing political view.

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The order of the questions is random per user, so not everyone will have the same 3rd set of Tweets.

I'm not sure if Twitter's algorithm is detecting a political bias and that detection is an input, or if Twitter marks Tweets as offensive because they have been reported by people who have a political bias, or if it is just random coincidence that one political side seems to get censored more than the other.

I also encountered a pair of tweets in which neither was offensive in any way, but they differed in their views of Israel vs Hamas.

I also got one from a gay porn model in which the presumably-offensive reply said "I want to get fucked like that"; in context, this can't really be considered offensive.