Masters of the universe, Twitter, have reinstated the Twitter account of popular activist Wanjiku Revolt after suspending him sometimes last year over a fake DMCA report.
In June 2019, Twitter lifted his suspension, two months after suspending him after a malicious DMCA Report. We had exclusively revealed how the social media company has been purging users based on malicious DMCA reports.
In May 2019, Edwin Kiama, who runs the accounts also found his active use of Facebook and Twitter accounts limited following the suspension of Twitter and removal of content by Facebook almost at the same period.
We have also been notified and confirmed that several advocacy accounts have been suspended by Twitter raising eyebrows as to whether Twitter is working with the government to kill activism.
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There are active reports that the social media giant now shares data with government agencies in order to get adverts from the government as the company keeps making loses due to poor ad revenue growth.
There have been many complaints from social media users alleging censorship and dictatorial policies by the platform that has witnessed a decline in the user-base.
Kenya has less than 500,000 active monthly users on Twitter as compared to Facebook that has over 7 Million active monthly users.