Twitter has announced plans to label and limit the visibility of tweets it considers “hate speech.” Self proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk’s company claims that the shadowbanning policy supports a “freedom of speech vs. freedom of reach approach.”
Twitter took its algorithm open source this weekend, allowing users to trawl through the company’s formerly hidden code. In the process, new information about how Twitter’s blacklisting of users and topics has come to light.
“I got shadowbanned,” Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL and author, said in a clip from his Jocko Underground podcast published on Monday. He said his months-long shadowbanning — which he notes had since been reversed — on an unspecified “social media” platform was imposed after making the Biden administration “look like idiots” in relation to the White House’s management of withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) pointed out that while Twitter has shadowbanned conservatives and suppressed the Hunter Biden story, the platform ignored requests from him
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk blasted Twitter for “cheating” and “rigging the platform for their own political ends” after it was confirmed on Thursday that his Twitter account had been shadowbanned under the social media platform’s previous ownership.
After the latest Twitter Files investigation revealed that the company blacklisted prominent conservative Twitter accounts, including Dan Bongino, Charlie Kirk, and Libs of TikTok, the shadowbanned users quickly voiced their outrage with the social media platform.
In the latest Twitter Files exposé, it was revealed that Twitter shadowbanned accounts to suppress their reach and virality, especially prominent conservatives. There’s just one problem — these tools are almost identical to Elon Musk’s current policy of “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.” Based on Musk’s comments, it seems unlikely any of the freshly exposed tools are going to be dropped from the platform, leaving Americans seeking free speech at the mercy of nebulous terms like “hate speech.”
A new Twitter Files investigation has revealed the many tools that company executives employed to blacklist and shadowban conservative voices. The thread posted to Elon Musk’s platform reveals that the internal Twitter name for shadowbanning is “visibility filtering.”
Twitter appears to be suppressing the results of video searches for the name of Italy’s election winner, Giorgia Meloni, making it harder for users of the platform to discover her speeches.
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.
Twitter has “search blacklist” and “trends blacklist” tags on accounts, according to a purported image of an internal tool used by employees to moderate users, released via the blockbuster hack of prominent individuals yesterday.
Groups such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Refuse Fascism are the left’s “paramilitary,” said Dinesh D’Souza, filmmaker and author of United States of Socialism: Who’s Behind It. Why It’s Evil. How to Stop It.
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.
Twitter’s practice of shadowbanning conservatives will face a courtroom for the first time next week, as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) sues the company and several others in a lawsuit headed to a courtroom in Northern Virginia next Friday.
Despite its frequent denials that it practices “shadowbanning” — the covert censorship of content without notifying the censored — Facebok applied for and received a U.S. patent for shadowbanning technology last month, according to a report in the New American.
Representatives from both Twitter and Facebook denied engaging in “shadowbanning” in response to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) t0day, although Twitter’s representative went on to describe practices that mirrors the covert censorship almost exactly.
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.
“Actually it’s incredible that I won the election because you know it was so rigged against me,” President Trump said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
Facebook may just have stolen Twitter’s crown as the web’s shadiest shadowbanner.
Republican Representative Joe Barton grilled Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on the shadowbanning of 600,000 Twitter accounts during a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today.
Twitter has said that its overzealous downranking of accounts was the result of errors in their system, just three days before CEO Jack Dorsey is set to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the subject of social media censorship.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter filed a legal brief on Monday, contending that Internet service providers (ISPs) such as Comcast or Verizon should not be able to censor content, while they reserve the right to censor content themselves.
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on September 5 regarding his company’s censorship practices.
The following is a speculative “future history” of how online free speech was protected from the censorship of Big Tech progressives by the creation of a regulatory agency known as the Federal Platform Commission.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted during an interview on Saturday that his company holds a “left-leaning” bias, but claims that the company’s enforcement of its rules if fair and not based on ideology.
Jim Jordan told Breitbart News in an interview that social media giants “cannot say they’re an open platform” and then restrict free speech.
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of social media platform Twitter, stated in a recent interview that he understands why conservatives may be distrustful of Silicon Valley tech companies.
Following recent reports from both conservative and left-wing media relating to the phenomenon of the shadowbanning of conservatives on its platform, Twitter has published a response which attempts to redefine exactly what shadowbanning is.
Twitter’s stock has dropped by almost 19 percent in morning trading following the company’s report of a consistent quarter-over-quarter decline in monthly active users.
A new video posted by Andrew Torba, the CEO of free speech social media platform Gab, illustrates how one form of Twitter’s shadowbanning actually works.
A new report from left-leaning VICE News revealed that Twitter is hiding the accounts of certain high-profile conservatives from users — which Breitbart News has been covering for years.
A Twitter spokeswoman said the company is working to fix Matt Gaetz’s search results.
Facebook thinks it can preserve its “commitment to free speech” by just censoring 80 percent of your post’s reach.
Twitter “accidentally” shadowbanned and suppressed the posts of an Independent Journal Review editor for over a year according to a statement from the company.
At the Breitbart News event “Masters of the Universe: Big Tech vs. Free Speech and Privacy” in Louisiana on Thursday night, author Ann Coulter said that Internet speech controls have gone far beyond criticizing flawed reports as fake news. “It is actual censorship, and it is terrifying,” she declared.
Twitter’s algorithms for political censorship target language and images — such as “America” and the American flag — associated with Breitbart News’s audience, said Project Veritas President James O’Keefe on Monday.
When a platform ‘shadow bans’ a user, the reach and visibility of their content is limited without their knowledge.
Facebook continues to do the German government’s bidding with regards to critics of immigration posting on the platform.
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot Ch. 125 this morning and discussed authoritarian action by progressives at social media companies like Facebook and Twitter.
