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>>ilamon+(OP)
> Iron Truth claims its tech industry back channels have led to the removal of roughly 1,000 posts tagged by its members as false, antisemitic, or “pro-terrorist” across platforms such as X, YouTube, and TikTok.

Does anyone know if that’s a lot? I don’t know either way. I just have a gut feeling that compared to the number of posts made by bots on any political matter it barely matters.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more efficient to counter with more bots going in the other direction with likes and posts.

>>Grumpy+6s
You have to measure the effect by summing the reach of every removed post. Removing a post from n account with ten followers is not the same as removing one from an account with ten million followers.

>>bjourn+rB
Wouldn’t deleting posts of high-profile users be easily noticed and lead to Streisand effect? The article says it didn’t manage to verify the cited claims.

>>Grumpy+vF
Yeah, but the reposts of it would be from lower-reach follower accounts that would also potentially be vulnerable to deletion if they spread