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Twitter censors user for ridiculous reasons: In another case of Twitter's terrible AI algorithms gone wrong, a user shared a screenshot of his censorship notice. The user tweeted: "You were…
Twitter censors user for imploring someone to beat a hockey team: In another example of the terrible AI algorithms that Twitter uses to enforce its censorship rules, a user shared a screenshot of an…
Twitter censors user for quoting Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Twitter user shared screenshots of their censorship notice. The user tweeted: "Rev Dr MLK 'I have almost reached the regrettable…
Twitter censors user for a common and harmless protest chant: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of his censorship notice. He had tweeted: "Hey hey ho ho Elizabeth Warren has to go hey hey ho ho…
Twitter censors user for asking someone to tie-die a t-shirt: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of their censorship notice. The user tweeted to another user, ""Yes please tye die one." The user was…
Twitter censors user for calling himself a redneck: A Twitter user shared screenshots of his censorship notice. The user was responding to the question, "What book changed your life?" They tweeted:…
Twitter removes Henry VI quote from William Shakespeare quote account: An account that calls itself William Shakespeare and posts various quotes from Shakespearean works tweeted "[l]et's kill all the…
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…
Twitter censors user for posting the words to a very common protest chant: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of his censorship notice. He had tweeted: "Hey hey hoe hoe all these corrupt…
Twitter user censored for joking about a popcorn ban: In another case of a bad Twitter algorithm, a user's account was locked and he was asked to delete a tweet in which he made a joke about a…
Twitter censors user for joke about COVID-19 vaccines and 5G: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of his censorship notice. He had tweeted: "Soon the vaccinated will have their 5g Killswitch…
Twitter user censored for proper and acceptable use of word "retard": In another case of a bad Twitter algorithm, a user's account was locked and he was asked to delete a tweet in which he properly…
Twitter censors account for a cat because it reported that the cat was a "Maine Coon mix of some kind": In another in a long string of incidents resulting from Twitter's faulty AI algorithm, a user…
Twitter censors user for "hateful conduct," most likely because of a word out of context: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of another user's censorship notice. The user had tweeted a very innocent…
Twitter censors user for talking about how to kill crabs and lobsters to cook them: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of her censorship notice. She had tweeted: "Don't we kill them by throwing them…
Twitter censors user for a ridiculous statement about people who don't put away shopping carts: A Twitter user, obviously using sarcasm when referring to people who don't put away shopping carts,…
Twitter's algorithm mistakes name of a Red Sox player for a Jewish slur, flags the tweet to be deleted: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of an appeal for his censorship notice. In referencing Red…
Bad Twitter algorithm strikes again: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of his censorship notice. He had tweeted: "@Capitals @Lexus SHOOT THE PUCK." The Twitter algorithm decided that this…