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    Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    Make note of all the foreign names in charge of this effort at Twitter -

    https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/...ical-opinions/
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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    So, "conservatives," how's that "corporations have rights" and "it's their company, they can do what they want" idiocy working out for ya?
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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    from op link. this sounds great:

    Twitter is in the process of automating censorship and banning, says Twitter Software Engineer Steven Pierre on December 8th of 2017:

    Every single conversation is going to be rated by a machine and the machine is going to say whether or not it’s a positive thing or a negative thing. And whether it’s positive or negative doesn’t (inaudible), it’s more like if somebody’s being aggressive or not. Right? Somebody’s just cursing at somebody, whatever, whatever. They may have point, but it will just vanish… It’s not going to ban the mindset, it’s going to ban, like, a way of talking.”

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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    Vice News July 25, 2018
    The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter, VICE News has learned. It’s a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform... The profiles continue to appear when conducting a full search, but not in the more convenient and visible drop-down bar.

    Democrats are not being “shadow banned” in the same way, according to a VICE News review... Not a single member of the 78-person Progressive Caucus faces the same situation in Twitter’s search.

    “The notion that social media companies would suppress certain political points of view should concern every American,” McDaniel told VICE News in a statement. “Twitter owes the public answers to what’s really going on.”

    Presented with screenshots of the searches, a Twitter spokesperson told VICE News: “We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this.” Asked why only conservative Republicans appear to be affected and not liberal Democrats, the spokesperson wrote: “I'd emphasize that our technology is based on account *behavior* not the content of Tweets.”

    UPDATE: July 26, 10:00 AM: Twitter appears to have adjusted its platform overnight to no longer limit the visibility of some prominent Republicans in its search results.
    CNS News Oct 11, 2018 MRC Poll: 49% of Conservatives Do Not Trust Twitter
    (Asked of self-described conservatives)

    Do you TRUST Twitter to treat all of its users equally, regardless of their political beliefs?

    Yes: 16.7%
    No: 49.0%
    Not Sure: 34.3%

    Is your TRUST in Twitter greater than, less than, or the same as it was one year ago?

    Greater than it was a year ago: 6.3%
    Less than it was a year ago: 34.2%
    The same as it was a year ago: 59.5%

    Which of the following BEST describes your position regarding Twitter?

    I stopped using Twitter because of their censorship of conservatives: 9.7%
    I am considering leaving Twitter because of their censorship of conservatives: 10.9%
    I either stopped using Twitter or am considering leaving the platform for another reason: 9.5%
    I am currently a Twitter user, and I am NOT considering leaving the platform: 17.8%
    I have never used Twitter: 52.0%

    This poll of 1,000 likely general election voters has an accuracy of +/- 3.1% at a 95% confidence interval. The accuracy of the responses from the 351 self-described conservatives is +/- 5.2% at a 95% confidence interval.

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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    Buzzfeed

    I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch -tweet

    In the first 45 minutes, 7,320 tweets (including retweets), 83 accounts tweeted or retweeted the phrase over 10 times each. -Buzzfeed Analysis

    And while it may have seemed like a spontaneous outcry from the President’s supporters, the phrase has spread at a rate consistent with the coordinated inauthentic behaviour expected from a network of bots or sock puppet accounts. -Buzzfeed News

    Narratives that we don’t like, phrases that we don’t like we will blame on bots and then remove them from the platform. -(((Buzfeed)))

    Twitter Has Suspended Several Accounts That Tweeted “I Hired Donald Trump To Fire People Like Yovanovitch" -Buzzfeed Headline
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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    And there is the jewtube banning of any and all non monetizing accounts. This will not work out well for them but real good for other platforms.
    Jackie did it and you know it!

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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    Quote Originally Posted by Cebu_4_2 View Post
    And there is the jewtube banning of any and all non monetizing accounts. This will not work out well for them but real good for other platforms.
    It will be very interesting to watch this all play out. Methinks they have not thought it out all the way. This could backfire for sure.
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    I think Gab is going to get a large influx of users here soon.
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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    Quote Originally Posted by Ares View Post
    I think Gab is going to get a large influx of users here soon.
    Most of the people there hate Israel so the Conservative Inc. crowd come, and squeal to ban people, then leave in disgust when they realize it's a free speech platform.

    Everyone interesting has already banned off of Twitter over 2-3 years ago.

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    Re: Twitter shadow banning “shitty people” aka conservatives

    Quote Originally Posted by Shami-Amourae View Post
    Most of the people there hate Israel so the Conservative Inc. crowd come, and squeal to ban people, then leave in disgust when they realize it's a free speech platform.

    Everyone interesting has already banned off of Twitter over 2-3 years ago.
    Opened my current twatter acct ~15 months ago, & post similar shite as here.

    But according to http://shadowban.eu I'm semi-permanently shadowbanned there; nearly always "reply deboosted" & often that temporarily increases to 3 of their 4 current tests showing SBs. Also 5-6 times had acct locked, always citing non specific "unusual activity" & requiring phone/code entry to unlock. This was always when I was hitting some timely new FF/hoax or anti-joo issue pretty hard, like dropping my red pill reply/link/vid comments into multiple threads begun by other, ideally 'popular/influencer' people... who get insta likes/comments/RTs by the 10s/100s on everything they tweet. There, my comments appear behind a "Show more replies" speedbump, of even a 2nd "show more, which may contain offensive content" speedbump.

    I believe they human/AI pigeonhole people into categories of wokeness, then their tweets/RTs only have any chance of being seen in the feeds of their followers who are likewise already woke; with zero chance of falling into the feeds of the "Conservative Inc" majority who've not been likewise identified.

    Of course twatter's also big on gaslighting wrt what they allow or forbid to trend, thus giving ppl false impressions of "how most ppl feel about XYZ", similar to the JSM's fake opinion polls, & boosing muh russia muh impeachment etc as the real public snoozes, falsely feeling 'isolated' in their views.
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