Just a few days ago,
ISIS accounts were using the #JustinBieber tag to direct people to violent anti-west propaganda. A few sites
covered it in the news. ISIS has been akin to a hydra on Social Media; chop off one head, two grows in its place. So you would think that fighting these extremists who are
very aggressive in getting a platform for themselves would be the primary target of Twitter support purges. You'd be wrong. Because Twitter's administration is largely self-policed (users report accounts, etc), ISIS is basically backburnered. Any ISIS account that pokes its head above water
does get reported, and
does get dealt with, but as we've seen from shit like this fucking thread in general, ISIS is not a priority for Twitter's loudest userbase (Social Justice, of course).
Instead, almost everything has been thrown by Twitter support at curtailing Gamergate and related hashtags (even things like
#TorrentialDownpour, which was to discuss the
Fire Emblem: Fates censoring), fucking with Conservatives and Classic Liberals who have too large a mouthpiece, and going after "harassment," which anyone remotely familiar with the Brianna Wu thread and its Lolcow Wiki articles know about by now. We know about these due to the shadowbannings, the changes to the search algorithms (any tag favored by critics of Social Justice
will get removed from autocomplete, even if it trends, like #IStandWithAttackHelicopters and #TorrentialDownpour did), and the fact that any Anti-GGer with a follower-base - even one as reviled as Wu - can basically get people suspended on a fucking whim.
Hence we have the surreal situation where accounts that broke no rules but inconvenienced a prominent Anti-GGer can be indefinitely suspended (
@le0pirat3 vs Nyberg for instance,
@Smutley's DNWarLibrary account, or GethN7), but ISIS accounts can persist for some time before anyone does anything about them because they simply aren't reported quickly enough, and the fact that they're responsible for shit that the regressive left doesn't like to think about (Cologne for instance).
Mind, this is despite the fact that ISIS has threatened to kill Twitter's employees for deleting their accounts.
Absolutely bizarre. I've never seen anything like this shit in the history of the Internet.