Breitbart Tech: Twitter has acknowledged that it is working to artificially limit the reach of “troll-like” accounts on the platform — “shadowbanning” users in all but name, a practice that the company has repeatedly denied.
In an announcement earlier today, Twitter said they were taking steps to limit “behaviors that distort and detract from the public conversation” by downranking content that exhibits such behaviors from search results and “public conversations.”
In other words, if your behavior is considered “troll-like” by Twitter, it will be harder for other users to find your posts on the platform. The practice of limiting the visibility of content without formally suspending the content owner, notifying them, or deleting the content in question the definition of shadowbanning.
Although Twitter employees have been caught on camera admitting that shadowbanning takes place on the platform, the company continues to publicly deny that it engages in the practice — they have even made such denials in Senate hearings.
Twitter has made little effort to be transparent about the kind of signals it looks for when seeking to identify accounts that, in their words, “distort the conversation.” One of their employees was caught on camera admitting that accounts that post too much about “God, guns, and America” are likely to be classified as “bots,” but there is no acknowledgment of that in Twitter’s announcement.
Twitter only provided a few examples of the kind of signals they look for. more here
Throw Twitter in the Shitter
Twitter is still trying to backfill and obfuscate after O’Keefe busted one of their engineers in January saying they were trying to “ban a way of talking”. Expect the usual fact-checkers to pop up and explain why these latest Twitter weasel words do not constitute an admission “shadow banning”.
Tomorrows New Rules Today. . . Now Even More Different Than Yesterdays Rules . . .
‘By reading this line you have acknowledged agreement to all X this Y and Z . . .
I will change this at any moment but You may not know it before until after You read that then.
You See
It can be reported the history books do record the Internet Winner of the Day for May 15, 2018 was one Rufus T Firefly of the Low Hum “Portal Division”.
‘Social media.’ The first word is a clue.
Twitter Officially Admits to ‘Shadowbanning’ ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS/CONSERVATIVES Users in All but Name
Fixed it for you
Oh yeah, nothing to see here…
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/16/youtube-restricts-paul-joseph-watson-video-on-this-is-america/
“I didn’t did it.”
I’ve never posted a single controversial item and yet they’ve nicked me twice in the last week. *blinks innocently* I can’t imagine what they’re thinking. 😉