Shadowban

The latest installment of the Twitter Files reveals that the censorship-loving leftists running the show before Elon Musk took over the platform used tech tools to suppress content posted by Breitbart News after adding a “bot” to the official Breitbart News Twitter account. As journalist Matt Taibbi explains, “The bot ends up becoming an automated tool invisibly watching both Trump and, apparently, Breitbart.” 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” users.

Poland’s new Freedom Act against Big Tech censorship will see members of the public automatically notified of “shadowbans” and empowered to overturn restrictions if their speech online is lawful.

Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.

Although Twitter temporarily suspended the account of ‘Unplanned,’ the movie is a box office success and, as of Wednesday, has 80,000 more followers than Planned Parenthood.

Twitter admitted on Monday to “removing” a post from Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, but the journalist claims the platform actually shadowbanned, or hidden from other users.

A lengthy blog post from Mark Zuckerberg explains how Facebook plans to replace its users’ preferences.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Twitter following revelations the social networking giant shadowed his account.   

One sentence after denying shadowbans, Twitter admits it is going much further in this discriminatory practice than many of us imagined.

A large number of right-wing and conservative Twitter accounts, including Breitbart News journalists, have been tagged with a mysterious Twitter filter that appears to block their tweets from some searches. It is unclear what else the filter does.