That would be an ecumenical matter...

Yesterday I received a notification from X stating that my account has been flagged as inauthentic and this would affect my "reach".  That's a laugh I have zero reach.  I don't even see any accounts from anyone I know anymore.  I logged on today to see a load of anti-Catholic propaganda of the type that would make Titus Oats blush.  One lady said that the President would in future be much less ecumenical to the Pope following his comments that laying waste to vast areas of Iran is contradictory to Canon Law [Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 2309].  Whilst another person was saying that this was why the US had not had a Catholic President for a 200 year stretch and yet another accused the Pope of being an agent for Islam etc.  Apparently the Pope is too scared to visit the US now as he does not think his safety can be guaranteed.  Don't think Chuck is in a rush to visit either...

Never-the-less I wondered if Elon had a point and my interactions were inauthentic.  Was I reverse engineering X for my own ends?  Well, a quick scan of the internet reveals I'm not the only one.  A large number of people have received similar notifications it seems after falling foul of an algorithm... But what is authenticity?  The only way I find sane people to talk to on there is using the search button.  Otherwise I'd be left talking to fuming US Senators and Moon Landing deniers who believe you can't send human's into space because of the Van Allen belt [it doesn't exist at the poles] and other engagement bait trolls.  I looked up some of the people I follow on there who's posts I never see.  Patrick Monahan posts every day but it's assiduously hidden from me. Matt Green and Wil Hodgson have decamped to Bluesky.  And Gary Webster has gone into hiding because someone is threatening to beat him up - I think it was Arthur Daley who say "'it 'im, Raymond!".  Little could be more inauthentic than X's algorithms so it's having a laugh complaining other people bypass them...