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by icare_1er 1282 days ago
Oh really, "everyone knew" ? Apparently not certain journalists, like Matt Binder below, or not even Twitter execs at the time back in 2018 when Trump claimed conservatives were shadow-banned... Classic from the left: "first, ridicule it. Second, strongly challenge it. Finally, pretend this has always been the case and every one knew". Clearly in phase 3 here with yet another fakenews from leftits...

Matt Binder: https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1601142989061246976/pho...

Tweeter Execs denying: https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-shadow-banning-republicans-...

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"The practice of shadow banning essentially involves making posts visible only to the person who created them and invisible to their intended audience"

There is a substantial difference between tweets not being promoted by the algorithm and tweets being invisible. A "shadow-banned" user's tweets would be invisible to even their followers.

Yeah, the Twitter execs specifically denied that they apply filters based on political views. From your own link:

> To be clear, our behavioral ranking doesn't make judgments based on political views

The "conspiracy theory" is that Twitter was deliberately targeting conservatives for their politics, not that the site had moderation functions.