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We're starting to have data on Elon's "general amnesty" of alt-right, covid-disinformation, and botnet accounts.
JM Berger (Brookings Institute, MIT Press, The Atlantic) has a blog post up with links to hard data. It's around 13,000 known accounts so far. Of those returning, most of those associated with the January 6th insurrection and QAnon have become active again, but the older accounts - including a huge restoration of the older Russian botnet accounts which engaged in election manipulation - are less likely to have resumed activities, at least as of November 30.
The accounts which have resumed activity have generally picked up where they left off, with tagged attacks on the people they most hate.
At least it's now well confirmed that Russian botnets are part of the "amnesty."
JM's blog post contains a link to a Google Docs file of restored accounts with some annotations. You can browse, if you're curious.
Regardless, this is Musk Twitter, and why it's over and it's time to leave.
JM Berger (Brookings Institute, MIT Press, The Atlantic) has a blog post up with links to hard data. It's around 13,000 known accounts so far. Of those returning, most of those associated with the January 6th insurrection and QAnon have become active again, but the older accounts - including a huge restoration of the older Russian botnet accounts which engaged in election manipulation - are less likely to have resumed activities, at least as of November 30.
The accounts which have resumed activity have generally picked up where they left off, with tagged attacks on the people they most hate.
At least it's now well confirmed that Russian botnets are part of the "amnesty."
JM's blog post contains a link to a Google Docs file of restored accounts with some annotations. You can browse, if you're curious.
Regardless, this is Musk Twitter, and why it's over and it's time to leave.
