Elon Musk, who shared the old documents of Twitter through journalists, published the second disclosure today. It turned out that ‘hidden bans’ are applied to hundreds of accounts on Twitter every day.
The sole owner of Twitter since October 28 Elon Musk, last week began sharing confidential documents for the company with the public. Using journalists as a tool in sharing these files, Musk made his second Twitter disclosure today.
The subject of Elon Musk’s second disclosure was the secret bans applied to accounts on Twitter. Twitter has absolutely denied it before.shadow ban (hidden ban)It turned out that he even performed the application on many famous accounts. Let’s get down to the details.
A separate team has been set up to secretly ban users on Twitter!
Founder of “The Free Press” this week Bari Weiss The disclosure files, which came to the fore through Twitter, were used to secretly ban people on Twitter. a separate team revealed.
This team is responsible for creating blacklists, posting disliked Tweets. preventing them from being listed among trends and even limiting the visibility of accounts and trends. was liable. All these transactions were carried out in secret, without informing anyone.
It was stated that the team in question was named the “Strategic Response Team – Global Upgrade Team (SRT-GET)”. The team was handling more than 200 cases per day.
Senior executives on the team include Vijaya Gadde (Head of Law, Policy and Trust), Yoel Roth (Head of Global Trust and Security), and former and current CEO Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal was also included.
Some examples (Prohibitions applied to individuals are indicated by colored labels)
Arguing that COVID restrictions will harm children, Stanford University’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said,To the Trends Blacklist” is placed. His tweets have been blocked from trending.
Account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk “Do Not Amplifymarked as ‘. In other words, this account was prevented from being publicized, and it was prevented from reaching large masses.
- Most of the accounts that Twitter has secretly banned conservative and right-wing people accounts included.
But what exactly is this secret ban? Twitter employees explain:
“Twitter executives and staff alike what many call “shadow banning”Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple top-level sources have confirmed its meaning.
A senior Twitter employee explained it this way: Think of visibility filtering as a way to suppress different levels of what people see. This is a very powerful tool.
Two Twitter employees also confirmed: We control visibility quite a bit. We control the magnification of your content (how many people it will reach). And normal people don’t know how much we make.”
In short, shadow banning served as a different kind of censorship.
Musk also made a promise for the future:
“Twitter is working on a software update that will show your real account status so you’ll clearly know if you’ve been shadow banned, why, and how to appeal.”
It is currently unknown whether legal authorities will take action regarding Twitter’s past. Next Twitter reveal, journalist in the coming days Matt Taibbi will be shared via
- So what do you think about what was revealed today?
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