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by leppr 1860 days ago
The flags seem to be mostly attached to accounts. I've found accounts being systematically shadow-muted whatever the content of their post (and they were "neutral" accounts, i.e. hadn't posted anything one could consider offensive, negative in tone, raunchy, or political in the past).

Also tangentially related annecdote, Twitter recently promoted a clear "send 1 BTC get 2 back" scam impersonating Elon Musk to me. All the while they often ban "neutral" accounts for no clear reason.

This company is the most obvious example of how central moderation doesn't scale to a fluid social network.