This controversy and possible legal action quickly prompted the attention of President Trump as he tweeted
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.
4:46 AM - Jul 26, 2018
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Last week, Vice News reported Twitter was allegedly “Shadow-Banning” prominent conservatives by making it harder to search for them on their platform. Twitter offers an auto-populated drop-down search box which makes it easy to lookup user accounts, however certain conservatives accounts were not appearing in these search results. Thus, the term “Shadow-Ban” became known as when a social media company bans a user account without the user ever knowing.
The Twitter account of Rep. Devin Nunes (R) was subject to this “Shadow-Ban” and he is now looking into possible legal action against the social media giant for the decrease in visibility of his account as well as many other conservatives that were banned, During an interview this weekend with FOX News, he said
https://saraacarter.com/consequences-for-shadow-banning-conservatives/