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THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.
TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
6:15 PM · Dec 8, 2022
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A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.
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Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.
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Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (
@DrJBhattacharya
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Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (
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Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (
@charliekirk11
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Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”
6:40 PM · Dec 8, 2022
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What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.
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“Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.