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by dragontamer 1085 days ago
And it coincidentally matched all these Ukrainian videos being locked behind age-verification?

Again, Ukrainian memes include a bunch of soldiers petting cats or dogs, or helping kids. Its not all frontline war footage. In fact, the meme accounts tend to be more tailored towards the cat videos.

The frontline footage accounts absolutely should be age-verified. But the meme accounts getting age-locked proves that Twitter suddenly had a change of heart over Ukrainians.
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philwelch 1085 days ago
I’ve hardly seen any age verification on war content, though to be fair I don’t follow a lot of the propaganda (“meme”) accounts you’re discussing.

Also, Twitter doesn’t have an age verification mechanism; it just sort of requires you to click through to see images that have been tagged as sensitive content.

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dragontamer 1085 days ago
They've basically moved onto https://nafo.uk / Mastodon instance now, if you wanna see what its mostly about. (I guess I see on Mastodon.world as well)

Twitter is obviously hostile to them, so they were basically forced to move. Given that Threads is likely going to be Mastodon/Fediverse compatible, that basically means that pro-Ukrainian side will be migrating off of Twitter and likely be compatible with Meta / Instagram Threads.

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philwelch 1085 days ago
Good for them. I’m mostly interested in OSINT content, not so much war propaganda.
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dragontamer 1085 days ago
For OSINT, I usually use the Institute for the Study of War.

https://www.understandingwar.org/

I also prefer OSINT stuff over propaganda memes. But I don't think that the propaganda memes should be deboosted / shadowbanned, especially if they are ya know? Honest memes / funnier stuff SFW?

The question is of Twitter and their shadowban policy. They're still clearly shadowbanning / deboosting / manipulating results. Its just switched politics, that's all.

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philwelch 1085 days ago
> For OSINT, I usually use the Institute for the Study of War.

Yes, that’s one of the sources I use as well.

> But I don't think that the propaganda memes should be deboosted / shadowbanned

I’m still not convinced that they are, to be honest.

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