Twitter has been shadowbanning" conservative accounts as some have recently charged. Project Veritas secretly videotaped several Twitter employees admitting to hiding conservative tweets from other users.
Run by conservative videographer James OKeefe Project Veritas filmed Abhinov Vadrevu a former Twitter software engineer explaining how shadowbanning works. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they dont know theyve been banned because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content when in reality no one is seeing it." Tweets will show up in the news feeds of users followers but not anywhere else on Twitter such as in search results.
A former content review agent for Twitter Mo Norai says Twitter bans accounts for political reasons. If they said this is pro-Trump and I dont want it because it offends me this that. And I say I banned this whole thing." Content reviewers would let a lot of the left-leaning or liberal stuff go through unchecked.
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Twitter has been shadowbanning" conservative accounts as some have recently charged. Project Veritas secretly videotaped several Twitter employees admitting to hiding conservative tweets from other users.
Run by conservative videographer James OKeefe Project Veritas filmed Abhinov Vadrevu a former Twitter software engineer explaining how shadowbanning works. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they dont know theyve been banned because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content when in reality no one is seeing it." Tweets will show up in the news feeds of users followers but not anywhere else on Twitter such as in search results.
A former content review agent for Twitter Mo Norai says Twitter bans accounts for political reasons. If they said this is pro-Trump and I dont want it because it offends me this that. And I say I banned this whole thing." Content reviewers would let a lot of the left-leaning or liberal stuff go through unchecked.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream