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by dragontamer 1085 days ago
You mean like how Elon Musk has shadowbanned pro-Ukrainian talk, such as Kyiv Independent? All pro-Ukrainian sources do not trickle up the timelines anymore.

Twitter also puts Ukrainians soldiers petting-puppies and/or showing off their cats behind the age-restriction filters.

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Before, Twitter had a committee and moderators who you could talk to about these shadowbans and other such moderation decisions. Today, all those have been fired, and strangely pro-Russians are being boosted... while pro-Ukrainians are being shadowbanned.

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I doubt what you're saying is even close to true. Hand out the evidence.
A Ukrainian news site seems like great evidence indeed.
Do you expect the Russians to talk about Ukrainian accounts getting shadowbanned on Twitter?

Of course this news would come from Ukrainian sources.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/NAFO/comments/145zfi7/twitter_has_d...

Its pretty obvious too. Traffic to Ukrainian-meme accounts dropped significantly. Anyone following Ukrainian accounts saw traffic go from thousands+ into just single-digits when the deboosting / shadowbans started.

I am part of that crowd who visited Ukrainian memes and saw them disappear from Twitter. So consider _ME_ to be a source on this as well.

Maybe Twitter just stopped artificially boosting pro-Ukraine content.
And it coincidentally matched all these Ukrainian videos being locked behind age-verification?

Again, Ukrainian memes include a bunch of soldiers petting cats or dogs, or helping kids. Its not all frontline war footage. In fact, the meme accounts tend to be more tailored towards the cat videos.

The frontline footage accounts absolutely should be age-verified. But the meme accounts getting age-locked proves that Twitter suddenly had a change of heart over Ukrainians.

Don't know about that, but before Musk the shadowbans were just a theory and I remember Jack Dorsey even denying existence of them.

The committee twitter had before was in close collaboration with FBI. Currently twitter is one of the only of the bigger social medias, where you can even discuss controversial topics and see discussion around those.

Better to be in collaboration with FBI than the current set of Twitter executives who seem to be pushing pro-Russian talking points and shadow-banning Ukrainians.