'Block Together' which can block approximately 48,000 political propaganda · bots at once on Twitter

by MrRomanelli

" BlockTogether " which automatically blocks all 48,000 bots that perform election propaganda is released. The list of accounts to be blocked is updated from time to time and it is possible to take measures against the SNS bot for the 2020 US presidential election.

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https://americapossible.com/2019/01/27/cleanup-twitter-for-the-2020-elections/

To use BlockTogether, first access the following page and click the button "Block All and Subscribe".

Block Together
https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/uK4u2vF9Q2qq4iKes9W3aI39fFlQHly6rw7BsqgG

Since you are asked for cooperation with Twitter, enter the account and password and click "Login".

After a while the screen shifted to the following screen. You can see that your Twitter account is displayed in the part surrounded by a red frame and you are on your login page.

In "My Blocks", a list of accounts you are blocking is displayed. List "from time to time be updated and, Twitter account for many of propaganda-bot exclusion Cleanup 2020 have been made by".

From "Actions", it is also possible to unblock only specific accounts.

In "Settings" it was made possible to share the block list and so on. Until June 28th 2018, it seems that there were functions such as "blocking accounts of young users" and "blocking accounts with fewer than 15 followers", but it was invalid at the time of article creation.

Block Together was originally a staff of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a tool for preventing harassment and created by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews , lead coder of the certificate authority " Let's Encrypt ", and users of the service blocked each other You can share a list of accounts. After that, Mr. Hoffman-Andrews made it possible to block the propaganda · bot at Block Together simultaneously, based on "Bot Sentinel" discovered propaganda bot in real time, created by software engineer Christopher Bouzy .

Bot Sentinel Dashboard <Bot Sentinel
https://botsentinel.com/

Regarding propaganda · bot, Bot Sentinel says "It is a bot that automatically follow-up, tweets, retweet, etc. accounts that use political agenda using the Twitter API, and promote content that tries to deceive people Many are designed to confront people, " explains .

Bot Sentinel is non-partisan and uses both machine learning and AI to find both left and right bots. When detecting the action of bot, it automatically adds an account to the public database. However, Bot Sentinel adds "untrustworthy propaganda account by human beings" to the list, but Block Together does not add this to the list of blocks, but blocks only "bots" to the last.