Twitter has admitted that it mistakenly removed accounts sharing Russian military activity in the midst of the Ukraine invasion. As TechCrunch notes, the deleted accounts, which have since been reinstated, included an aggregator of user-generated posts from Ukraine and accounts owned by people doing open source intelligence investigation (OSINT) to debunk fake news and claims.
While users first blamed mass reporting for the account deletions, Twitter Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth said it wasn’t a factor at all. Instead, the removals were a result of errors made by human moderators who are proactively addressing manipulated media on the website.
In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson explained to TechCrunch:
“We’ve been proactively monitoring for emerging narratives that are violative of our policies, and, in this instance, we took enforcement action on a number of accounts in…
