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Twitter Shadowbans Briefing and FAQ

• mintplant 11y ago
  Is there a reliable source or evidence backing this up? Google searches bring up a Breitbart article, a few conservative/fringe blogs linking back to it, and a post on Reddit's GamerGate subforum.
  • makomk 11y ago
    That's probably all you're going to get for now, or possibly ever. Twitter's last major change to their moderation and banning policy (forcing people to delete tweets in order to reactivate their account) wasn't announced until several weeks after GamerGate encountered it, and that was a lot harder to conceal than shadowbanning.
• perlgeek 11y ago
  I'd like to know if anybody has considered the possiblity of a technical error, and submitted a bug (does twitter have a public bug tracker or a contact for bugs?). I agree from the description that it reads quiet scary, but such things could be caused by bugs. Twitter has a distributed system behind it that's much more complex than the simple user interface suggests, and weird things happen in big, distributed systems.