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Elon Musk says Twitter will start showing if you've been shadowbanned
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| Imagine the surprise if Elon Musk found out his own account was shadowbanned! Credit: Sopa Images/Getty Images |
The days of secret shadowbanning on Twitter are over – at least according to Elon Musk.
On Friday, Musk tweeted that Twitter is "working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal."
Shadowbanning is a controversial practice of making certain posts or users on social media less visible to others. On Twitter, it rose to prominence in 2018, after reports that Twitter secretly shadowbans Republicans, which Twitter co-founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey denied.
Musk's announcement comes after the second batch of "Twitter Files," which are internal company communications made public by none other than Musk himself (via outside journalists).
This particular batch of files focuses on Twitter's "secret blacklists," claiming that "teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users." Examples of accounts that were shadowbanned include those of right-wing talk show host Dan Bongino, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and Stanford professor, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
Musk shared no details on how the "true account status" feature would be implemented, nor when it could see the light of day.
Notably, the news comes shortly after Instagram implemented a feature that shows users with professional accounts whether their content is eligible to be recommended to non-followers, along with the option to request an additional review of their content if they think Instagram made a mistake.
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Wait, what!?! I thought you said shadowbanning was a conspiracy?
ReplyDeleteit is , your point ? He's gonna expose it
DeleteThe only thing he's ever exposed is his his tiny junk to his employees, leading him to pay them a quarter of a million in hush money.
Deleteif you have been on Twitter Elon released files last night showing how Twitter lied about shadow banning people for years. They just called it "Visibility Filtering" the files went on to show they used it regularly to suppress political views they didn't like and just anything they didn't like.
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Deletedidn't Elon say that freedom of speech isn't freedom of amplification and that twitter will continue this same practice?
DeleteYes and I agree with that decision and welcome the new approach for transparency. But not too long ago the word was “shadowbanning” was not a thing https://blog.twitter.com/.../Setting-the-record-straight...
Deletedid you actually read what you linked?
DeleteLike it was in their policy docs https://twitter.com/kodkod87/status/1601217452691845122...
DeleteBut the implementation in reality looked more like this https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600...
DeleteI wish that leaving Twitter meant I heard less about Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI mean everyone knew it was happening Musk just confirmed it. Thanks
ReplyDelete“Elon Musk announces more irrelevant facts about his app that no one cares about anymore.”
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no one - except elmer-
Deletethough he did implicate Jack if Jack lied under oath it’s a problem even if we knew he lied.
DeleteLol… is it a shadow ban if you know about it?
ReplyDeleteseriously it was the worst kept secret on most social media platforms. Though I find IG to be more obvious about it. TikToks bad too.
DeleteMusk is always doing a great job!!!
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ReplyDeleteHow?
ReplyDeleteI think an emoji with a black bar over the mouth would be sufficient. Maybe a GIF from Office Space where the guys destroy the copy machine. Hahaha!
DeleteYay, now the bot users get to quietly make another account without needing to manually check. Does Musk even know what shadowbanning is for?
ReplyDeleteI mean, that would be nice, since I tend to get dimmed any time I use a cuss word near a blue check. That'll probably still be the case, though. What with them being paying customers, now.
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ReplyDeleteactually all this news is distracting from the platforms bugs as of recent 🧐I think he’s deleted a lot of functionality and trending topics don’t seem as catered to the individual anymore I can’t even see my local stories as much.
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DeleteIf the nsa. Cia. & fbi state police monitor every single tweet I don't understand why they don't ask team Biden to give Caucasian men and boys federal protection from hate like Biden gave to Asian people recently . Because someone on Twitter hates white people .they go on & on about it .it's really scary
ReplyDeleteroof that Elon is drinking the Q Juice and has dived head first into the rabbit hole. The Radical Right has found their new useful idiot. 🙄🐑
ReplyDeleteFree speech or Musk speech? How do you ban freedom in Elon’s universe? Idiocy! He talks out of both sides of his mouth. He is late to the authoritarian-style rule. The world is rejecting fascists.
ReplyDeleteWill they pay me to join?
ReplyDeleteJust let us know when the new 'free speech' policies are in effect. I'm waiting for that so I get booted testing them.
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ReplyDeleteBasically everyone on The Right was shadow banded... which is what you all loved about the previous twitter - CENSORSHIP!
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ReplyDeleteFb needs a filter so we never have read about elmer
ReplyDeleteThat’s what the man said earlier🎩 thanks for letting us know..again.
ReplyDeleteOk. Why not just stop shadow banning people? Wouldn't that be a better option?
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