OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — On April 29, Inès Abdel Razek woke up to 80 new Twitter followers. “These accounts were following the exact same people that were tweeting about Palestine, but from France or Francophone accounts that work on Palestine,” Razek said of her new followers. The advocacy director of Rābet, the Palestine Institute for
Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Accounts
Digital-rights experts say acquiring huge amounts of fake followers trigger Twitter’s algorithm and can lead to the tech giant suspending your account, effectively censoring users by forcing them to make their accounts private.