The pro-Palestine Twitter account that’s impossible to follow
A mystery surrounds the X account @PalestinaHoy01, which spreads information about the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Users can follow this account, but a few seconds after clicking the “Follow” button or in case of refreshing the page, the action is canceled. That means @PalestinaHoy01 cannot add followers.
If yes, then how did the account get 17,000 followers? We don’t know that either. Reloading the profile page will increase the number to 23,500 or decrease to 14,000, 7,000 or 2,000. Furthermore, it shows different figures when different accounts are consulted. This behavior occurred after account owners managed to return to the platform yesterday after their previous account was closed.
The person behind this account, which is presented on X as a “website dedicated to reporting on Palestine”, has invited his followers to follow his work through a Telegram channel. “Twitter (X) blocks users of the platform from following our account. Did you manage to follow our account? One of his messages says, “No to censorship!”
last week, X blocked the account of Migration Journalism CongressWhich was held in Mérida during a dialogue dedicated to the war in Gaza. Those responsible for Congress reported that they had lost access to the account and could not publish messages, while the account displayed a text warning of “unusual activity” on said account.
The mystery of the PalestineHoy01 account may be due to a phenomenon known as ‘shadow banning’ or hidden deletion of its content on the platform. However, unless
This type of deletion, done intentionally in the shadows, means that some content is no longer visible to an account’s followers, even if it was published normally. However, the lack of visibility of content has been condemned as a method of censorship by platform owners.
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