[thatguy0900]

He complains that Twitter doesn't know local Pakistani politics, but what would be the answer in this case? Set up national moderation offices? In this very case, they would just say yeah he's a spy... Unless you want random unaccountable expats making judgment calls about your government

[computerfriend]

Moderation is already localised by language. It's not such a stretch to extend this to some basic regional knowledge.

[PeterisP]

What the parent post seems to be saying is that it's quite plausible that localised moderation might follow the 'new regime' and instead of the current ignorance, they would strongly side against the OP - there's no reason to presume that 'some basic regional knowledge' would lead moderators to support the OPs political position instead of the position according to which he should be silenced and arrested - it might swing the one way, it might swing the other.

[computerfriend]

OP claims that synthetic commentators are making claims about them that are demonstrably untrue. This can be (and in other locales is) moderated in a politically neutral way.

[PeterisP]

I'm fairly sure that in other locales it is moderated in a politically neutral way that does not even attempt to evaluate whether the claims are untrue - the moderators verify if the claims are directly threatening or crude insults, but otherwise moderators don't attempt to determine what is true or not and correct people who say something untrue either intentionally or accidentally.

[waqasx]

least Twitter can do is sensitize their moderators, or at least a subset of them, about local issues, maybe not to the level of making them regional experts, but enough so that they can tell a truth from a lie, a dangerous maligning campaign vs a fair critique. I dont think that is a hard problem.

[thatguy0900]

How can you tell a truth from a lie in politics? You can certainly find the position you agree with and hire those guys and claim its always the truth, I guess. Unless you actually somehow know who the Indian secret services are paying. I certainly don't, even if I don't believe that this author is guilty of being a spy. This is judgment calls that a low paid Twitter moderator cannot make with any confidence.

[mypalmike]

It's not just a hard problem. It's an intractable problem.

[hackerlight]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy