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by rhaksw 1285 days ago
It's surprising when you see it happen to your own content. Check out the reactions from people whose content has been secretly moderated that I quote here [1]

These aren't far right or left, it's everyone. Likely all of us have been secretly moderated at some point without our knowledge.

When I discovered this happening on the platform I used, I built a tool to let me know when it happened, and I published that tool for others to use. Now it sees 500k users per month. Similar tools could be built for all other sites that do this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916519