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Comment by bjourne

1 year ago

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.

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.

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

Deleting 1000 of my posts: inconsequential. Deleting 1000 of Musk's posts: inconceivable.