Privacy, of course, belongs to natural persons. If you can conclusively prove that these are automated bots, operated in a very coordinated fashion, that no human being can control 200,000 accounts at once – like “Lucy” in the movie – then it is OK or considered a new cyber norm for Twitter to publish not only the tweets those accounts have posted before taking them down, but also the metadata, meaning the user accounts, their online behavior patterns, and things like that.

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