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X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/x-purges-13000-accounts-linked-to-suspected-meddling-ahead-of-us-midterms/5303234
26•ilreb•28m ago

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gvfsa•14m ago
>...as well as content intended to discourage participation.

Uh? That's odd. In my country I don't vote because I don't feel represented and I encourage others in my situation to do the same. Would I get banned for saying that?

boesboes•7m ago
Are you a bot from an openly hostile nation? If not, then probably not. But maybe you've already been successfully brain washed, because that's EXACTLY what countries do to undermine each other
brodouevencode•12m ago
Reminder that Twitter (X) has done similar things (shadow-banning) before.
lawn•8m ago
Knowing Musk, they probably purged pro Democrats while leaving Russian bots alone.
boesboes•6m ago
true, luckily they're mostly offline since yandex gone boom
mingus88•5m ago
What a blow to Elon to lose his account in his own platform
olooney•4m ago
Twitter over 300 million daily active users. 13,000 is 0.004% of that.

A standard drop of water is 0.05 ml. A standard household bucket is about 3 gallons. So the proverbial "drop in the bucket" is 0.0004%.

So, for all you naysayers out there saying this is just a drop in the bucket, it's literally x10 that.

piva00•2m ago
Without any stats/metrics about engagement of real users with these accounts you have absolute no basis to do any comparison to drops of water.

Not sure why number of accounts matter at all, even more if you are depending on internal Twitter investigations to determine that without knowing any of the methodology to detect those, etc.

But sure, you can always defend Twitter if that's the hill you want to die on.

stetrain•3m ago
I'm sure this was done in a perfectly fair and balanced manner and not in a way that is at all aligned to the CEO's publicly stated politics.
voidhorse•3m ago
Meanwhile: https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-midterms-republicans-do...

Manipulation of elections is OK as long as you do it with money.

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