Quinn K Chase

Twitter censors user for speaking out about the potential harm using a camp stove indoors - yes, really: A Twitter user, responding to a news story, tweeted the following: "She can kill herself and everyone in the house with carbon monoxide poisoning if she uses a camp stove indoors unsafely. The authors of the story should have clarified that point." It is quite clear from the tweet, without needing context from another tweet, that the user is warning that using a camp stove indoors without proper ventilation can be extremely dangerous. Twitter's notoriously bad algorithm was unable to determine that context from the tweet itself, and flagged the tweet as violating its "rules against promoting or encouraging suicide or self-harm." The user posted a screenshot showing the results of her appeal to Twitter over this, which states that Twitter's "support team has determined that a violation did take place." The user was therefore required to delete the tweet in order to regain access to her locked account. It is hard to believe that a human actually reviewed the appeal, given the result, and is more likely that Twitter is using it's terrible algorithm to adjudicate appeals to faulty violations resulting from the same terrible algorithm.

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