Twitter: We Only Shadowban ‘Bad-Faith Conservatives’

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Twitter admit they shadowban 'bad' conservatives

Twitter has admitted it ‘shadowbans’ conservative accounts, including those belonging to politicians, if they are deemed “bad-faith actors.” 

In a re-writing of the English dictionary, Twitter attempted to change the definition of ‘shadowbanning’ in an Orwellian blog post, whilst denying that they engage in the practice. In the same post, they then admit to ‘restricting’ (i.e. shadowbanning) large numbers of Trump supporters fon their platform.

Newsbusters.org reports: President Trump, the RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, and GOP members of Congress all reacted on July 26 when Vice released a study indicating that Twitter was shadowbanning conservatives by removing them as results in the Twitter search bar. CEO Jack Dorsey and several other employees denied it several times on Twitter and released a blog post saying that they did not shadowban. Well, sort of.

Twitter qualified its statement saying unless a user was a “bad-faith actor” or interacted with “other communities” that were bad faith actors.

In an official company blog post, written by Legal Lead Vijaya Gadde and Product Lead Keyvon Beykpour, Twitter denied any shadowbanning, saying: “We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile).”

That sounds like it fits even their definition of shadowbanning, described as “deliberately making someone’s content undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to the original poster.”

Freelance journalist Tim Pool tweeted a response to Twitter’s blog post, saying “Uhhh, Twitter, I’m pretty sure that’s still shadowbanning.”

Journalist Glenn Greenwald co-founder of the Intercept called the blog post “bizarre and disingenuous.” He went on to say, “What’s the point of following someone if Twitter blocks their tweets from appearing in your time-line? Maybe that’s not technically ‘shadow-banning’ but it’s heavy-handed manipulation.”

Conservative blogger Lee Doren tweeted a better definition of shadowbanning, “The definition of shadow ban was never the banning of all people, just a significant number of larger accounts to ensure your comments receive less traffic than it had in the past.”

Twitter fixed the search error on its site, according to Vice. In the blog post, the issue was attributed to “how other people were interacting with these representatives’ accounts more than the accounts themselves… We believe these types of actors engaged with the representatives’ accounts — the impact of this coordinated behavior, in combination with our implementation of search auto-suggestions, caused the representatives’ accounts to not show up in auto-suggestions.”

4 Comments

  1. its creeping totalitarianism.Its mind control en masse.Its pure Nazi ism serving Satan.The Prince of Darkness who like a snake slithers into mens minds and souls and works his way into their brain.

  2. I love how there all bastard pig shit. Every single one who works for them fb google cops politicians and rest who will love the hell fire on the afterlife. Have fun losers.

  3. How about the millions and millions of conservatives Twitter PERMANENTLY BANNED over the last two years , far far more than it shadow bans is my guess . The Twitter excuse that they broke rules is a 100% outright lie .

    In most cases Twitter refused to even tell the person who inquired why were they banned , Twitter is an absolute disgrace and is NEVER to be trusted .

  4. I’m glad Twitter’s shadowbanning and banning of users is being exposed, but I think it’s also important to expose the fact that targeting Twitter as a scapegoat in this censorship is itself deception; ALL social media platforms use identical means of suppressing the voice of the public. Jake Morphonius demonstrated Youtube’s shadowbanning in a July 26 Blackwater Intelligence video by posting a comment on his own site, then logging in with a different user name to show that the comment wasn’t visible to others. Disqus does this routinely, in addition to deleting user accounts, and FB censorship has been extensively exposed in the media. We don’t have a problem with Twitter; we have a problem with global fascist totalitarian control.
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