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Yulia Navalnaya's account suspended briefly on Twitter. (Updated)
Last edited Tue Feb 20, 2024, 11:29 AM - Edit history (1)
Yulia Navalnaya's Account Is Briefly Suspended by X
Source: The New York Times (gift link/no paywall)
By Valerie Hopkins
Reporting from Moscow
Feb. 20, 2024
The social media platform X temporarily suspended on Tuesday an account created by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Aleksei A. Navalny, and then restored it, saying it had been mistakenly flagged by its automated security protocols. Ms. Navalnaya opened the account on Monday to announce that she would continue her husband’s work advocating for a free, peaceful and democratic Russia in the wake of her husband’s death in a remote Arctic prison. More than 90,000 users followed the account in its first 24 hours.
But on Tuesday, the account and its activity suddenly disappeared, replaced by the words “Account suspended” and a note that X — the social media company formerly known as Twitter — “suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.”
“Our platform??s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules,” X’s safety team wrote on the platform later on Tuesday. “We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.”
Earlier in the day, Ms. Navalnaya wrote on the social network Telegram that “Twitter has imposed restrictions on my account, which I opened yesterday.” “According to the Shadowban Test service, my tweets are not shown in searches, and if you enter my name in the search bar, my page is not recommended among recommendations,” she wrote.
After the account was reinstated, tens of thousands of new followers were being added.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/world/europe/navalny-wife-yuliya-navalnaya-x-account.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W00.Nr31.Fx00gwJfaTdX&smid=url-share
Source: The New York Times (gift link/no paywall)
By Valerie Hopkins
Reporting from Moscow
Feb. 20, 2024
The social media platform X temporarily suspended on Tuesday an account created by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Aleksei A. Navalny, and then restored it, saying it had been mistakenly flagged by its automated security protocols. Ms. Navalnaya opened the account on Monday to announce that she would continue her husband’s work advocating for a free, peaceful and democratic Russia in the wake of her husband’s death in a remote Arctic prison. More than 90,000 users followed the account in its first 24 hours.
But on Tuesday, the account and its activity suddenly disappeared, replaced by the words “Account suspended” and a note that X — the social media company formerly known as Twitter — “suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.”
“Our platform??s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules,” X’s safety team wrote on the platform later on Tuesday. “We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.”
Earlier in the day, Ms. Navalnaya wrote on the social network Telegram that “Twitter has imposed restrictions on my account, which I opened yesterday.” “According to the Shadowban Test service, my tweets are not shown in searches, and if you enter my name in the search bar, my page is not recommended among recommendations,” she wrote.
After the account was reinstated, tens of thousands of new followers were being added.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/world/europe/navalny-wife-yuliya-navalnaya-x-account.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W00.Nr31.Fx00gwJfaTdX&smid=url-share
WTF?
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Update: Not sure, but it looks like I'm seeing her account back on Twitter.
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