Twitter said that between mid-2015 and February 2016 it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with ISIL and related organizations, and by August 2016 had suspended some 360,000 accounts for being associated with terrorism (not all these were ISIL-related). By August 2014, Twitter had suspended a dozen official ISIL accounts, and between September and December 2014 it suspended at least 1000 accounts promoting ISIL.
Twitter repeatedly shut down accounts that spread ISIL material, but new ones popped up quickly and were advertised with their old Twitter handle Twitter in return blocked those in what was called an ongoing game of Whac-A-Mole. A "Twitter suspension campaign" began in earnest in 2015, and on one day, 4 April 2015, some 10,000 accounts were suspended. Twitter frequently responds to media enquiries about suspended accounts with "We do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons." History īetween 20, Twitter suspensions were frequently linked to ISIL-related accounts. Some commentators, such as technology entrepreneur Declan McCullagh and law professor Glenn Reynolds, have criticized Twitter's suspension and ban policies as overreaches of power. In January 2019, Twitter formally provided information on instances where governments have attempted to utilize Twitter for "foreign information operations". In addition to community guideline policy decisions, the Twitter DMCA-detection system and spam-detection system are sometimes manipulated or abused by groups of users attempting to force a user's suspension. They are told only that their accounts will not be restored, and they are told which of Twitter's rules the company claims were violated. But a porn star later revealed it’s actually him in the video, not the rapper.Users who are suspended from Twitter, based on alleged violations of Twitter's terms of service, are usually not informed which of their tweets were the cause. On the same night Paul was trending for his alleged sex video, rapper DaBaby, who’s real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, was already trending on Twitter for his alleged nude video getting leaked. She said, “For today’s meal, I figured out that I had all of the ingredients on hand to make what I needed to make, so I figured we’d go ahead and make *eggplant* parmesan!… Perfect, right?” Ayesha even joked about the situation via Instagram Live on Friday night. Steph and Ayesha Curry were briefly embroiled with a nude photo scandal, but it was later confirmed by a source to the San Francisco Chronicle that it was not the NBA star and his wife in the pictures. A few days earlier, ASAP Rocky‘s sex video made its way onto Porn Hub, and the rapper owned up to being the man on the tape. Twitter has been abnormally busy fielding through both real and fake nudes and sex videos. Keep in mind there are like 3 hat wearing beard gay videos that people spam at me daily. Definitely looks like him! You can’t see his face good enough. 1 question: Is it Logan Paul in the video? – to which he responded, “Ok, well I saw the alleged video of Logan Paul giving head to another dude.
While users online believed Paul’s Twitter feed might have been hacked, another major YouTube celebrity, Keemstar, found the entire sex tape video entire hilarious, which confirmed to others that Paul was merely trolling his followers.Īfter tweeting, “God I love the Internet,” Keemstar answered fans’ No. Further fueling the fire, Paul tweeted out, “James Charles, ur next,” for which the popular make-up guru, who’s no stranger to controversy himself responded, “Sorry bro I only go for straight guys,” with a cringe face emoji.īased on this interaction, many people online who thought the porn video was real, however, Paul continued to stir the pot and tweeted, “When d*ck bait becomes click bait.”