Twitter suspends accounts that convey photos and videos of Russia's invasion of Ukraine



As tensions between Russia and Ukraine increase, Russian military trends are spreading through SNS such as Twitter and TikTok. There are many accounts on Twitter that collect information on the Russian army posted on various SNS, but there was a situation where those accounts were frozen on Twitter.

Twitter accounts sharing video from Ukraine are being suspended when they're needed most --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/23/22947769/twitter-osint-russia-ukraine-invasion-suspended-error

Russia and Ukraine continue to be extremely tense, with senior U.S. Department of Defense officials saying that the Russian military is 'fully ready for a major invasion.' In this situation, many images and movies of tank units and military helicopters that are said to be deployed by the Russian army are posted on SNS such as Twitter and TikTok. For example, the following movie shows a Russian tank corps traveling in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, which is located near the border with Ukraine.




There are many open source intelligence (OSINT) accounts on SNS that collect information about the Russian army by collecting legally accessible information as described above, but those OSINT accounts are by Twitter. Multiple cases of freezing have been reported. For example, Oliver Alexander , who had released information about the Russian military, reports that his account was frozen twice in 24 hours.




Also, in the tree starting with the following tweet posted by Nick Waters , OSINT accounts frozen by Twitter are recorded in a row.




Regarding the situation where OSINT accounts that publish information about the Russian army are frozen, Twitter spokeswoman Elizabeth Basby said, 'In this case, we accidentally frozen some accounts. We quickly verified our freeze measures and unfrozen a number of affected accounts, 'he admits that the freeze was wrong. 'The claim that these freezes are the result of bots and organized mass reporting is inaccurate,' Basby claims.

In addition, Mr. Basby said the frozen account may have violated the ' Synthetic or Manipulated Media Policy ' that prohibits information tampering and public security breaches.

'Most of the misfreezing by Twitter is for non-English-speaking users, which is because Twitter's system is optimized for non-English languages,' said Arick Torah, director of the OSINT website Bellingcat . 'But this misfreeze was done for users tweeting in English, and those accounts are also large accounts with tens of thousands of followers. This misfreeze. Freezing is a little weird. ' He also points out that the freeze may have been done manually rather than as a bot, citing that the frozen OSINT account is primarily active in 'reposting information posted by others'. ..

On the other hand, Mr. Toller said, 'Twitter is unfreezing the account' 'Even if Twitter becomes unavailable, you can speak on platforms such as Telegram and Facebook' 'The information sent by the OSINT account is another source of information It is a compilation of things, and information can be viewed even if the OSINT account is frozen. '

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