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Twitter mistakenly suspends accounts posting about Russian military movements
Twitter said on Wednesday it had mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts that were posting about Russian military movements. The erroneous action was based on Twitter's rules against synthetic and manipulated media. Twitter has already reinstated access to a number of affected accounts.
- Date it happened
- 2022-02-23
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Twitter automated enforcement system
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