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by mkempe 2881 days ago
Ok, what do the shadow-banned Republican representatives Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Devin Nunes have in common?
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Beats me, but I don't have access to all the account behavior data Twitter does, nor do I know what metrics they use to determine whether to shadowban an account. It certainly doesn't seem to be based on political affiliation since many Republican political accounts haven't been shadowbanned.
If you are interested in the truth, how many of their Democrat colleagues have been shadow banned?

Answer: none. But according to you it "certainly doesn't seem to be based on political affiliation".