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Elon Musk Can’t Solve Twitter’s ‘Shadowbanning’ Problem
- bediger4000 4y ago>"Shadowbanning,” in its current usage, refers to a content-moderation tactic that reduces the visibility of a piece of borderline content rather than removing it entirely. That is so loose as to not mean anything at all. By that standard, any tweet not put right at the top of everyone's timeline is a shadow ban. Before I deleted my Twitter account to protect the valuable "Intellectual Property" in my writing, I was shadow banned by that standard, as I had only 12 followers or something. My tweets were hidden by the algorithm! Any presentation algorithm is going to end up ranking material somehow. I wasn't shadow banned, I just wasn't popular. Which makes me think the meme of "shadow banning" is fed by various misunderstandings, both of algorithms and of the size of Twitter.